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Who are DW Documentary?DW.com is the official website of Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's public, state-owned international broadcaster. Headquartered in Bonn and Berlin, DW serves as an independent, multilingual media outlet providing unbiased global news, regional reporting, and deep-dive analysis in 32 languages.
Who is Edward Bernays?Edward Louis Bernays (1891-1995) was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life. Bernays described the masses of people as irrational and subject to herd instinct - and outlined how skilled practitioners could use crowd psychology and psycho-analysis to control them in desirable ways. Bernays worked for dozens of major American corporations including Procter & Gamble and General Electric, and for government agencies, politicians, and non-profit organizations.
What is USA?The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States or America. It is a country comprising 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2), the United States is the world's third or fourth largest country by total area and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe's 3.9 million square miles (10.1 million km2). With a population of over 327 million people, the US is the third most populous country.
