In terms of legal technicality the Second World War is still in progress. Media’s role it is to psych people up for war, inflame passions and essentially to cover the culprits’ tracks after the guns are silenced. The information war, in which Adolf Hitler is media’s bogeyman, intensifies. There are reasons; the internet has blown away media’s supremacy. It happened swiftly and took conventional media by surprise. As recently as 2002 a Venezuelan Army General sneered:

We had a secret weapon. We had the media, especially TV. You got to have the media.

Fast forward: The internet today vaporises conventional media. News media’s most pressing dilemma is the ineffectiveness of their spin. Editors know their ‘Letters to the Editor’ section is a big draw. How do media respond when, having demonised Russian President Vladimir Putin or Syrian President Assad, streetwise readers respond with ridicule and facts? They’re hung on their own petards. Readers’ response is of course screened; a percentage of say 10 percent is nodded through on the principle that ‘the best lie is the half-lie’. The scam creates the impression of freedom of expression. Reader skepticism is best evaluated by media’s plummeting sales and profits.

How can media deal with the Adolf Hitler phenomena? Despite feverish anti-Reich propaganda the great social revolutionary’s allure refuses to fade. The Führer’s Mein Kampf is more popular than ever before. Worldwide sales are second only to those of the Holy Bible. A recent poll asked; ‘Who would you most like to see brought back from the dead?’ The clear winner was Adolf Hitler, with Jesus Christ second place, trailing 14,000 votes behind.

In media there is what is known as ‘Hitler Clicks’. Any Reich-related story drives up the clicks. Publishers know the genres that sell best begin with the letter ‘S’; one is sex and the other is Swastika. However, publishing houses will not touch books authored by real historians. If they should they do so they are denied media book reviews and barred from agency supplies and retailers’ shop shelves. Mighty online sources like Amazon and download breaks through this blockade. Tim Danvers, one of Britain’s most successful dealers in militaria, once remarked:

I have sold so much Reich regalia there can’t be a man’s bedroom in Britain that hasn’t a Swastika on the wall.

I recall the anti-Soviet joke; a small party of peasants is introduced to the wonders of radio broadcasting. Cautioned to keep their voices down, the hushed group enter Moscow Radio’s broadcasting studio. The guide explains; “When we speak into this microphone we can speak to the entire world.”

The pensioners are awestruck. An elderly babushka timidly asks if she can speak to the world too.

This is not allowed but she is persistent. Then, on the promise that she will keep to her promise and say just one word she is brought to the microphone. “Now,” she is warned, “Only one word and not one word more.” Taking the microphone into her shaking hands the old dear screams:

HELP!

Today Olga and the rest of us have the internet. We are no longer dependent on the BBC~ITV or America’s main broadcasters. The Hitler-clickers have finally been liberated thanks to the internet.