Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw-Haw by Charles River Editors (.ePUB)
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Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw-Haw: The History of the Axis Powers’ Most Notorious Propagandists during World War II by Charles River Editors
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Overview: The subtle art of propaganda campaigns directed against one’s enemies has been a feature of war since ancient times. However, its potential for mass psychological impact created a new paradigm with the invention of modern electronic communications. Every nation involved in the Second World War, whether of the Allies or Axis, possessed an agency devoted to the mission of demoralizing and misleading the enemy, and virtually all artistic genres participated. In America, Frank Capra, director of beloved films such as It’s a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, also directed wartime films demonizing the Germanic personality. In a notable example, a training film warns young GIs that German women do not share a natural capacity for human ethics common to higher civilizations and therefore must be avoided. Theodore Geisel, beloved to Western children as Dr. Seuss, wrote stories stereotyping, demeaning, and demonizing the Japanese, complete with insulting and offensive illustrations. Radio Free Europe filled the airwaves with pro-western speech as a counter to communist expansion and diatribes about the ‘otherness’ of enemy societies.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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