World War One Propaganda - Can someone help me?

[Palmares]

I need some information about it for an essay due next Wednesday.

Does anyone have some info, or a site , or something that can help me?

[CopperGoat]

Well, all the countries that were in WW 1 used propagana posters for people to join the army, or to fund the army. That's a good point. The news and the press of each country, always exaggerated the positives or their army, and made the negatives look unimportant or small, and not affecting thing. That's a lot of propaganda there. Bias and propaganda is more of a topic also.

I hope it helped...

[Pete]

In the beginning in all Allied (and American) papers there were articles about German troops bouncing Beligum babies like balls and bayonetting them. No lie. It comes before any war. It came in August of 2001. ANd then Afghanistan was a target. Conspiracy?

[Uhuru na Umoja]

I do not, I am afraid, know of any good websites on this. However, I do have one interesting bit of information: the Canadian city of Berlin, Ontario, changed its name to Kitchener as part of the war effort. So that is why there remains a London and Paris, Ontario, but no Berlin. Also the House of Windsor emerged at this time, because being the house of Hannover was not longer politically correct.

[redstar2000]

The pro-German American journalist and linguist H.L. Mencken wrote a number of pieces that attacked British propaganda encouraging America to go to war.

I do recall reading about some incidents of interest. After the U.S. went to war in 1917, "German Beer Gardens" became "Swiss Beer Gardens", sauerkraut became "liberty cabbage", and the teaching of the German language and culture all but stopped in American universities.

Also, I think the phrase "atrocity story" comes from that era. The German occupation of Belgium was pretty horrific and did involve massacres of civilians...but what was publicized in the western countries was far worse. After the war ended and the truth came out, people became very cynical about "atrocity stories"...so much so that when the first reports of the holocaust emerged in the early 1940s, people greeted them with disbelief--more "atrocity stories".

Sometimes, atrocity "stories" are true.

:cool:

[mcleodstickle]

Are you doing propaganda in a specific country??
When i get back home from school later tonight ill raid for links for you.

[chamo]

American (http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/amposter.htm)
Propaganda Posters from different countries (http://hci.stanford.edu/~mmorten/propaganda/wwi/)
More Stuff (http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/WWI.html#Propaganda)
About claims of German soldiers "crucifing" a Canadian Prisoner (http://hnn.us/comments/5531.html)

[MiNdGaMe]

I did an essay on world war 1 and propaganda too!
I can summarize some information if you'd like?

[Anonymous]

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/n20.jpg
i like this one...