Government Using High Tech to Communicate with the Masses

"Hitler’s dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical  devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were  deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man."

-- Albert Speer
[Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer] (1905-1981) German architect, Adolf Hitler's chief architect before becoming Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich

Source: at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, 1946

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