There are other risks of deceiving your own side as well.
There was so much anti-German propaganda during WWI, most of it attacking “the Huns” as horrible barbarians who killed babies and all that. It was all false.
Because of all that untrue propaganda during WWI, when reports started to leak out about what was going on to Jews in Germany before WWII, people often didn’t believe them, thinking they were again propaganda.
If you lie to your own side, then it makes it much harder for you to tell your own side the truth in the future.
There are other risks of deceiving your own side as well.
There was so much anti-German propaganda during WWI, most of it attacking “the Huns” as horrible barbarians who killed babies and all that. It was all false.
Because of all that untrue propaganda during WWI, when reports started to leak out about what was going on to Jews in Germany before WWII, people often didn’t believe them, thinking they were again propaganda.
If you lie to your own side, then it makes it much harder for you to tell your own side the truth in the future.