ll play a part in helping the people to understand and appreciate the
new legal code. The schools and Hitler Youth groups provide
instruction for all young people in the fundamentals of National
Socialist law, and pupils in those schools which train the carefully
selected future leaders are given an especially strong dose of Nazi
legal theory and practice.

In order to appeal to the broadest audience, Nazi propaganda has
always sought to present all questions in the simplest possible terms.
Goebbels himself, in his _Nature and Form of National Socialism_
(document 2, _post_ p. 170), wrote as follows:

National Socialism has simplified the thinking of the German
people and led it back to its original primitive formulas.
It has presented the complicated processes of political and
economic life in their simplest terms. This was done with
the well-considered intention of leading the broad masses of
the people once again to take part in political life. In
order to find understanding among the masses, we consciously
practiced a popular [_volksgebundene_] propaganda. We have
taken complexes of facts which were formerly accessible only
to a few specialists and experts, carried them to the
streets, and hammered them into the brain of the little man.
All things were presented so simply that even the most
primitive mind could grasp them. We refused to work with
unclear or insubstantial concepts but we gave all things a
clearly defined sense. Here lay the secret of our
success.[112]

The character and quality of Nazi propaganda was fully presaged in
_Mein Kampf_. Here Hitler paid a striking tribute to the power of
lies, commenting on--

the very correct principle that the size of the lie always
involves a certain factor of credibility, since the great
mass of a people will be more spoiled in the innermost
depths of its heart, rather than consciously and
deliberately bad. Consequently, in view of the primitive
simplicity of its mind it is more readily captivated by a
big lie than by a small one, since it itself often uses
small lies but would be, nevertheless, too ashamed to make
use of big lies. Such an untruth will not even occur to it,
and it will not even believe that others are capable of the
enormous insolence of the most vile distortions. Why, even
when enlightened, it will still v