PART 3 of 5 br br A German TV report by journalists Jo Angerer and Mathias Werth entitled "It Began With a Lie" "Es begann mit einer Luge" provides proof of THE INCREDIBLE MANIPULATION of the public opinion carried out by NATO. br br Germany's Social Democratic (SPD)-Green party coalition government employed fabrications and manipulated facts to overcome people's opposition to the participation of the German armed forces in NATO's war against Yugoslavia in 1999.