He was seriously just an amateur compared to US propaganda apparatus, there's even clear proof how he believed US really do protect it's citizens, when U-boot sunk SS Athenia 3 september 1939 on which 28 US citizens died, Hitler, Goebbels, Donitz, Raeder immediately panicked that US will use that as casus belli like with Lusitania and they censored and propagandised entire case so much that the fact it was U-boot that sunk the ship was only accidentally revealed at Nuremburg trials.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is interesting. I wanted to learn more about the propagandizing of it. Do you know of reliable English sites to do that?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Iirc i first read about it in book about WW2 on sea by Janusz Piekałkiewicz and also seen it in some British TV, and it's on wiki too, so even western libs admit that happened, though they will never go to the conclusion how that compare US and 3rd Reich propaganda apparatus.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 6 days ago

Thanks, I saw the Wikipedia entry but didn't read the whole thing because Wikipedia. I'll do that, later.