big lie
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Key facts
- Court
- Southern District of Florida
- Started
- October 3, 2022 ; 3 years ago ( 2022-10-03 )
- Docket nos
- 0:22-cv-61842 (S.D. Fla.), 23-14044 (11th Cir.)
- Appealed to
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Judge sitting
- Raag Singhal
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political slogan
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- named by
- Adolf Hitler
- handled, mitigated, or managed by
- Hitchens' razor
- political alignment
- political positions of Donald Trump
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Encyclopedic overview
Adolf Hitler, c. 1923, two years before he coined the expression
A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth, primarily used as a political propaganda technique. The German expression was first used by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf (1925) to describe how people could be induced to believe so colossal a lie because they would not believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". Hitler claimed that the technique had been used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist political leader in the Weimar Republic.
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