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Propaganda in World War II
Propaganda in World War II (WWII) had the goals of influencing morale, indoctrinating soldiers and military personnel, and influencing civilians of enemy countries. Both the Allies and the Axis powers used propaganda during the war.
By the 1930s, propaganda was being used by most of the nations that joined World War II. Propaganda engaged in various rhetoric and methodology to vilify the enemy and to justify and encourage domestic effort in the war. A common theme was the notion that the war was for the defence of the homeland against foreign invasion.
The Nazi Party propagandist Joseph Goebbels once wrote in his diary:
The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it.
— Joseph Goebbels
Winston Churchill in 1941 created the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) for the distribution of propaganda damaging to the morale of the enemy. Foreign language broadcasts of the BBC World Service were central to gaining influence over the German people. Goebbels, before committing suicide, remarked, "Enemy propaganda is beginning to have an uncomfortably noticeable effect on the German people.... British broadcasts have a grateful audience".
The British used black propaganda techniques to deliver subversive messages directly to the German people by dropping leaflets and postcards.
The Hollywood film Mrs. Miniver (1942) by William Wyler told the saga of the British home front and ended with a sermon delivered in a church destroyed by Allied bombs: "This is the people's war. It is our war. We are the fighters. Fight it, then. Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right".
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Propaganda in World War II
Propaganda in World War II (WWII) had the goals of influencing morale, indoctrinating soldiers and military personnel, and influencing civilians of enemy countries. Both the Allies and the Axis powers used propaganda during the war.
By the 1930s, propaganda was being used by most of the nations that joined World War II. Propaganda engaged in various rhetoric and methodology to vilify the enemy and to justify and encourage domestic effort in the war. A common theme was the notion that the war was for the defence of the homeland against foreign invasion.
The Nazi Party propagandist Joseph Goebbels once wrote in his diary:
The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it.
— Joseph Goebbels
Winston Churchill in 1941 created the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) for the distribution of propaganda damaging to the morale of the enemy. Foreign language broadcasts of the BBC World Service were central to gaining influence over the German people. Goebbels, before committing suicide, remarked, "Enemy propaganda is beginning to have an uncomfortably noticeable effect on the German people.... British broadcasts have a grateful audience".
The British used black propaganda techniques to deliver subversive messages directly to the German people by dropping leaflets and postcards.
The Hollywood film Mrs. Miniver (1942) by William Wyler told the saga of the British home front and ended with a sermon delivered in a church destroyed by Allied bombs: "This is the people's war. It is our war. We are the fighters. Fight it, then. Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right".