The Holocaust: How Psychological Warfare Shapes Belief and Culture

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The Holocaust: How Psychological Warfare Shapes Belief and Culture

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I recently have become interested in the role that organized propaganda, specifically the process of creating rumors, played in shaping the Holocaust narrative that we see today. I watched this documentary posted on Cory Hughes' rumble channel and it was very thought provoking. I recommend it to anyone that hasn't watched it already.



For context, I previously watched his 7-hour long break down of the John F. Kennedy assassination, and while it was very convincing, I have not done much of my own in-depth research on that topic specifically so I can't speak to the accuracy of everything in it. The most interesting thing to me, outside of the assassination itself, was the first part of the documentary where he discussed how the CIA/OSS went about creating propaganda in the form of rumors. My first thought was to take this knowledge and apply it to other events and stories throughout the past one hundred years or so. Most notably, the Holocaust narrative is known to have sprung from rumors about large scale atrocities being committed by Germans against the Jews.

From what I understand, the official story is that the rumors of atrocities, specifically gassings, are said to have originated within the camps and made their way out to the public. The stories were then put into newspapers and other forms of media which led to Jews learning about these stories. This is why we see clips of survivors saying that when they were forced to take a shower upon arrival at a camp, they thought gas was going to come out and kill them and were pleasantly shocked when water came out instead.

I took the liberty of writing down the important aspects about rumors and how they are created that are outlined in the documentary via OSS documents. I underlined important points.
Rumors:

Definition (What is a rumor?):
  • The successful rumor is a simple, brief, concrete, and vivid story, purporting to come from inside sources and concerning persons and events familiar to all members of the group.
1. The successful rumor is easy to remember:
  • It is sufficiently brief and simple to survive in memory of successive narrators
  • It concerns familiar persons, places and circumstances, and incorporates suitable “local color”
  • It contains striking concrete detail
  • It often incorporates stereotype phrase or slogan
  • It contains a humorous twist when possible
2. The successful rumor follows a stereotyped plot:
  • Its plot recapitulates precedents and traditions in the history and folklore of the group
  • It observes the peculiar national disposition of the group
  • “It is the oldest story in the newest clothes”
3. The successful rumor is a function of the momentary interests and circumstances of the group:
  • It is provoked by and provides an interpretation or elaboration of some isolated current happening or event
  • It serves to supply information which is needed to fill a knowledge gap
4. The successful rumor exploits the emotions and sentiments of the group:
  • It expresses a widespread emotional disposition shared by members of the group
  • It provides justification for suppressed fears, hatreds, or desires
  • It serves to articulate a sentiment common to the group
5. The successful rumor is challenging because:
  • It purports or appears to come from inside sources and usually has the character or “forbidden” information
  • It is usually incapable of direct verification
  • It is neither too plausible nor too implausible
Rumor Targets:
  • A successful rumor must take advantage of the state of mind of the people for whom it is intended. The general principles are:
  1. Those people who are most eager for information about events which effect them are the best targets for rumors supplying such information
  2. People with fears, hopes, and hostilities stemming from their involvement in the war are affected most by rumors that feed on those feelings
Planning Rumor Work:
  • Planned lines of action against the enemy should include strategic themes for rumors
  • To implement rumor suggestions stemming directly from these themes one or more of the following techniques can be used: Different rumors revealing the same “information”; planting the same rumor in different places; designing them so as to appear of independent origins; integrating them with black and white media.
Based on these criteria, we can go through and show how the Holocaust narrative was crafted via rumors by intelligence. It's important to remember that intelligence's primary goal was to help win the war against Germany by any means possible, and usually that meant winning over public sentiment and trying to cause revolt against the government (just like we saw recently in the Israel-Iran conflict where Netanyahu was hoping the Iranian people would rise up against the Ayatollah). These rumors that were created also assisted the Zionists in their goal of creating a homeland, but I won't touch on that here.

For the 1st point, a lot of the early propaganda that was being pushed out was both humorous and detailed. There were ridiculous stories like roller coasters of death, masturbation machines, etc. These stories had a humorous twist in the sense that they were ridiculous, and the process for how they were killed in each story were very detailed.

The 2nd point discusses traditions and folklore of the group. The "group" in this case would be the Jews, and when we think about tradition and folklore we think about their religion and what might be symbolic in it. This is why we see the 6 million number as one of the pillars of the Holocaust. There was another thread on this forum recently about the 6 million fable and its religious significance (https://www.codohforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=412) so I won't go into that here. This number was seen in newspapers in the decades before the Holocaust, making it convenient to use for propaganda during and after the war.

The 4th point is the second most important one in my opinion. Essentially, it discussed how the rumor should exploit the emotions of the group. Most notably, the second bullet discusses that the rumor should provide justification for said emotions. Jews already had a negative sentiment towards Germans because they were being placed into ghettos/camps and discriminated against. To exploit and amplify the emotions of the group, intelligence started planting rumors about mass atrocities. It's joked about now how "Jews have been kicked out of all these countries, but they can never tell you why." Well, how would Jews be able to express their grievances against Germany without telling the truth? The answer is that they don't need to if they and others believe that they are being genocided. Nobody expects to hear justification for why your group is being killed on a large scale because such an act is unacceptable in nearly every circumstance. If people, especially German citizens, were to learn that the German government was supposedly coordinating a genocide, then it could potentially cause an uprising within the country and help the Allied war effort.

The 5th point on the list is the most important one since it relates directly to the gas chamber story. Throughout the war, and even during the Nuremberg Trials, there were reports and testimony of atrocities through electric chambers, steam chambers, and gas chambers. All of these rumors were believed to have come within the various camps and spread to the wider Jewish population. Let's look at the definition of a rumor again:
The successful rumor is a simple, brief, concrete, and vivid story, purporting to come from inside sources and concerning persons and events familiar to all members of the group.
The bolded portion is the most important part when talking about these rumors of death chambers. These stories were very simple, vivid, and purported to come from inside the camps and made their way out to the press. Usually, they went along the lines of "X number of Jews have been slaughtered in gas chambers disguised as shower rooms at X camp." These stories were "incapable of direct verification." During the war, there was actually no way to verify that these atrocities were truly taking place. Nobody from the outside had access to these camps, and even those who did were unable to verify claims of gas chambers. Here is a thread about the Red Cross being unable to verify gas chamber claims (https://www.codohforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=100). However, the claim that Jews were being murdered in poison gas chambers is "neither too plausible nor too implausible." It's not totally out of the picture that Hitler and the Germans would systematically murder Jews since they had animosity towards them. For other reasons, such as need for labor and the use of expensive resources, systematic murder would be implausible for the Germans during a two-front war. The use of gas chambers also isn't a ridiculous way to kill a lot of people at one time, at least from a surface level perspective. For these reasons along with others, the gas chamber story is the one that made it to the other side of the war and is the one of the pillars of the Holocaust. The electric chamber, masturbation machines, baby head bashing, and other claims were too implausible and were totally incapable of direct verification, hence why they are seen as fake propaganda now.

The "Rumor Targets" section lays out which groups should be targeted by rumor and propaganda. The 4th point relates directly to the principles laid out here and I discussed that above. On a more general note, it's very important to understand how all of these aspects about rumor creation work together to create believable propaganda. I attempted to break down each point down on an individual level, but each aspect of the story is interconnected and work together to form the Holocaust narrative.

The "Planning Rumor Work" section describes the process in which rumors are actually created. I want to look at this more closely since it provides framework for a summary.
Planning Rumor Work:
  • Planned lines of action against the enemy should include strategic themes for rumors
  • To implement rumor suggestions stemming directly from these themes one or more of the following techniques can be used: Different rumors revealing the same “information”; planting the same rumor in different places; designing them so as to appear of independent origins; integrating them with black and white media.
Throughout the war, rumors of different methods to commit mass atrocities were being reported on. The goal of these rumors was to give the impression that mass murder was taking place, regardless of how. The same rumors, specifically gas chambers, were being reported from different camps across Europe. These rumors seemingly came from independent origin from within the camps, or by some group/organization/government. The rumors were then put into various forms of media so people could see what was supposedly occurring.

Lastly, I think a lot of people who have a simple understanding of Holocaust revisionism, or are new to the topic, have the belief that Jews just made up these stories and people went along with it. This is not to say that Jews did not ever make up their own stories, rather they were greatly assisted by organized propaganda. I wanted to point this out to start a broader discussion on how the coordinated use of propaganda, specifically in the form of rumors, was used by intelligence to create the Holocaust narrative.
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Re: The Holocaust: How Psychological Warfare Shapes Belief and Culture

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The video is from 'Ryan Dawson' and it is a good one. He also has one that touches on Kennedy called Numec that is very good and his work on 9/11 and the war on terror is incredibly good. (Upon closer inspection it is clipped from Ryan's video and some other content has been added). The original (ish) for posterity.



Numec;



Empire Unmasked;



There are a couple details in your post I could nit pick, but, far be it from me to stifle your flare. Instead I will encourage you to look for the root of the masturbation machine story for example, as it came quite late. Other than a small detail here or there, as a whole, I completely agree with your post.
were to guess why no t4 personnel were chosen to perform gassing that had experience with gassing, it would be because THERE WERE NONE.
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Stubble wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 12:50 am There are a couple details in your post I could nit pick, but, far be it from me to stifle your flare. Instead I will encourage you to look for the root of the masturbation machine story for example, as it came quite late. Other than a small detail here or there, as a whole, I completely agree with your post.
Thanks. I made this post off the top of my head to try and put some of the connections I had made down in writing. I figured there would be some errors here and there, but the general idea is what I was going for.

The Numec documentary has been on my list for a while, and since I've recently started digging further into the JFK assassination I figure it's time I watch it.
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:popcorn:

Enjoy. It is a fine piece of documentary film.
were to guess why no t4 personnel were chosen to perform gassing that had experience with gassing, it would be because THERE WERE NONE.
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Re: The Holocaust: The Pornokitsch of David Olere

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Pornokitsch was a large part of Anti-German Psychological Warfare.
David Olere was a master of this sicko style.
Today the porno has been replaced by sicko crazed fantasies.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41283370
Note the BBC's awed admiration.

I remember my 5th grade classmates talking about Olere-like Nazi crimes such as tying up male prisoners
and having beautiful females walk in front of them. If the men got erections they were shot.

Tales of vast amounts of plunder gold is another Olere theme.
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For the affect of Olère's sick trash on Canadian Belief and Culture see the trash thrown at children
by the the Believers.
https://www.voicesintoaction.ca/lessons/unit5/chapter2/

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DavidM wrote: Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:58 am For the affect of Olère's sick trash on Canadian Belief and Culture see the trash thrown at children
by the the Believers.
https://www.voicesintoaction.ca/lessons/unit5/chapter2/

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Yes, that link provides a fascinating insight into the psychology of the ‘holocaust’ mindset.
Olère’s art is very plainly a form of psychological warfare: it is emotionally manipulative, atrocity propaganda.
As is unintentionally admitted in that website:
Art as testimony
David Olère offers a personal testimony of the atrocity of the Holocaust…

…Olère’s artistry is truly one of the most important representations of the atrocities of the Holocaust.

https://www.voicesintoaction.ca/lessons/unit5/chapter2/
Here’s something rather unique from a holocaust website, where it addresses the rather obvious unreliability of personal testimony such as Olère’s:
AJP Taylor, one of Europe’s leading historians, was well known to be sceptical of the value of oral history. Historians – and this is true of some Holocaust historians, too – long regarded oral history as too subjective to be very reliable. They preferred archival documentation from the historical period itself.

But there was a surge of interest in oral history of all kinds in the 1970s and 1980s. Holocaust historiography benefited from this. Holocaust historians such as Martin Gilbert and Christopher Browning made extensive use of Holocaust testimony.

Is Testimony Always Reliable?
Memory can fade as years pass, so that testimony may lose in sharpness. It can sometimes be hard for survivors, as time passes, to distinguish what they experienced at the time from what they have read or seen since. Interviewers can negatively impact on testimony by trying to “steer” interviewees, interrupting or redirecting them.

But if memory evolves, this may be because particular events or thoughts seem more important later than they did at the time. Also, testimony adapts to meet the requirements of audiences today. It can develop, too, in response to what else is being said or shown about the Holocaust. Testimony is in flux because we, as human beings, develop. Its authenticity remains even as it changes.

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/testimony
The above is an example of: 1] the self-delusional gullibility of the true-believer mindset AND 2.] the calculated manipulation of the masses by professional promulgators of the holocaust mythology.
It is self-contradictory as it first admits that eye-witness testimony is notoriously unreliable but ends by claiming in the case of the holocaust historiography must be accepted as ‘eternally authentic’.
:roll:

SUMMARY:
The ‘holocaust’ as history relies to a very great extent upon the testimonial ‘evidence’ of people who were incarcerated in concentration camps and who self-identify as ‘jewish’.
Upon the testimony of these people the WHOLE narrative is based. Their ‘words’, their ‘anecdotes’, their ‘stories’: these are accepted by the faithful ‘holocaust’ believers as ‘credible evidence’. Evidence that must not be questioned by people but must be given obsequious respect.

And David Olère’s eye-witness testimony and art is actually a very good example of how false-memory is created. (see below).

Conclusion: Anyone who thinks David Olère’s art is proof or even credible evidence of the WW2 propaganda alleging a planned and partially executed genocide of ALL jewish people in Europe is someone who has been emotionally manipulated and is a dupe. Which appears to be the vast majority of people. A sign of the strange hold this WW2 atrocity propaganda still has over the gullible masses.

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