Friday, January 8, 2021

Top Astonishing Book Donation: "The bigger the lie, the more readily it will be believed"

This is The Most Astonishing donation I've handled in my time as "Book Lady" since 2018: an anti–Nazi pamphlet from London, 1936:
"Germany's Foreign Policy as stated in 'Mein Kampf' by Adolf Hitler," tucked into the 1st English translation (1933) of MK: My Battle.

 
The pamphlet sums up the book's main passages, such as this one on "the art of lying".

Short version--read the whole thing in the photo:

"The bigger the lie, the more readily it will be believed:
'...The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses are... more easily deceived than they are ...intentionally bad.
The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one,
for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.
...SOMETHING THEREFORE ALWAYS REMAINS AND STICKS FROM THE MOST IMPUDENT OF LIES, a fact which all... concerned in the art of lying know only too well...."