Exactly what is happening now.. "he sought to polarize public opinion and the political parties with incendiary news stories, some of them Fabrikationen—entire

Exactly what is happening now.. "he sought to polarize public opinion and the political parties with incendiary news stories, some of them Fabrikationen—entirely fabricated articles intended to cause confusion and outrage. According to one such story, the government was enslaving German teenagers and selling them to its allies in order to service its war debt. Hugenberg calculated that by hollowing out the political center, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse."