{"id":13694,"date":"2026-01-05T15:57:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/?p=13694"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:56:05","slug":"i-living-in-a-lie-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/i-living-in-a-lie-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"I &#8211; 17 &#8211;  living in a lie &#8211; shaped by the system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Living in a Lie &#8211; shaped by the system &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I looked at the photograph and said, \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable that the Nazi ideology of a \u2018people\u2019s community\u2019 was based on the idea that its progress and happiness were built on the misfortune and ruin of others!\u201d She immediately shot back, \u201cFrom today\u2019s perspective, you can say that, but back then, you would have gone along with it too.\u201d I looked at her and thought to myself: this statement reveals a lack of moral ethos and uncertainty about who one was or is. And immediately afterward, the question occurred to me: how many people today still operate within that framework of totalitarian rule? And what about us? Are we also shaped by this system?<\/p>\n<p>In the photo right: a decorated ballroom with the banner <strong> &#8220;The individual is nothing\u2014the people are everything&#8221; &#8211; one of the core propaganda slogans of the national sozialism &#8211; <\/strong>for an event of th NSDAP Party in Germany<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in a Lie &#8211; shaped by the system &#8211;\u00a0 I looked at the photograph and said, \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable that the Nazi ideology of a \u2018people\u2019s community\u2019 was based on the idea that its progress and happiness were built on the misfortune and ruin of others!\u201d She immediately shot back, \u201cFrom today\u2019s perspective, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-preserving-family-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13694"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17568,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694\/revisions\/17568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}