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uncategorized quadrivium home about quadrivium quadrivium uncategorized archived posts from this category april 25 2008 the battle for the mind german and british propaganda in the first world war posted by josh under culture history media uncategorized war wwi tags culture history media propaganda war 33 comments since i have been unable to come up with some interesting posts here lately here is a copy of a paper that i delivered at the uncg honor s symposium in 2007 in the first world war humanity was horrified at the advent of trench warfare u boats tanks and casualties on an unprecedented scale as nations rapidly discovered new and more brutally effective ways to slaughter one another s citizens however war fueled innovation extended beyond the bomb blasted battlefields of the eastern and western fronts it began in the home front as the concept and practice of war propaganda flourished governments engaged in the great war learned very quickly that modern warfare would require the effective use of propaganda to sway public opinion it was no longer sufficient for a nation s military to be the only force in conflict now the entire populace both civilian and soldier would combine into a national fighting force of the numerous lessons to be drawn from the first world war one of the most significant was that public opinion could no longer be ignored as a determining factor in the formulation of public policies sanders taylor 1 national morale would depend on how swiftly recruits signed up and how much comfort and peace of mind citizens would be willing to sacrifice in this paper i will examine world war one propaganda as it was practiced by the british and german governments each of these nations was required to increase its propaganda effort in order to continue fighting in a war that became increasingly detrimental to public morale examining the propaganda techniques of both countries will reveal a great deal about their respective cultures how much they differed and how much they shared in common even before their declaration of war on august 1 1914 the germans had already begun work on their own semi official propaganda machinery which was loosely spread throughout the various branches of german government welch 22 early in the war german journalist matthias erzberger established the zentralstelle für auslandsdienst central office for foreign services which concerned itself with distributing propaganda to neutral nations especially after the invasion of belgium the german government also heavily employed the wolff telegraph bureau as a means of international propaganda after the british cut germany s undersea telegraph cables the germans relied upon their wireless nauen station the most powerful transmitting station in the world to continue a constant feed of pro german news reports to the world welch 22 23 an interesting german propaganda technique was the use of mobile cinemas these transportable film machines would be sent to the german front line to provide entertainment to the weary german troops scattered throughout the featured films german propagandists had inserted short newsreels that would depict recent events in a decidedly pro german light posters and postcards also played and important role throughout the war a comparison of german and british posters clearly reveals the differences between german and british culture while british posters relied heavily on artistic flourishes and effective slogans german posters were much more matter of fact indeed german war posters were often nothing more than large illustrated graphs which detailed the resources of germany in comparison to other nations one such poster that contrasted germany s combined national income with great britain s features a smiling well fed german citizen holding a much larger wallet than the sour faced emaciated briton that he is compared to welch 83 german visual media excelled in adapting national mythology to the war this was a decided advantage in propaganda over the british although great britain was a nation with a strong literary tradition it lacked an epic cultural mythology like germany s german mythology in the nordic tradition was perfectly suited for militaristic aims it should come as no surprise then that many german war posters contained images of dragons valkyries and sword wielding siegfried like heroes portions of the hindenburg line were even given such names as siegfried and wotan the father of the gods in german mythology germany placed far less emphasis upon recruiting in its propaganda than did the allies the german military was fairly large at the beginning of the war and since the german government had effectively portrayed their struggle as defensive the german populace was swept up in a nationalistic fervor indeed the primary manifestation of german home front propaganda lay more in what was censored than what was said german media was closely scrutinized by the government so that most of what the civilian population imbibed was positive defeats and setbacks were rarely revealed british propaganda has been described as an impressive exercise in improvisation sanders taylor 1 the origins of great britain s propaganda machine are little known but an almost unanimous consensus exists among historians that prior to the war the british had no official strategy for propaganda however as the war progressed german propaganda was eventually surpassed by the effort of the british the germans excelled in quantity they were notorious for inundating neutral nations with their propaganda but the british excelled in quality the british government learned and learned quickly the best way to sway public opinion at home and abroad eventually organizing an official war propaganda office titled m17 perhaps the strong british literary tradition contributed to the quality of british propaganda a large part of what makes great literature great is the ability to use the right words to convey a precise effective meaning british propaganda excelled at this even the simple poster which pictures two small children asking their befuddled father daddy what did you do in the great war made a powerful impact on the british social conscience british newspapers cartoons and visual media were very successful in producing their desired effect and what was this effect one word recruitment upon entering the war britain s volunteer army was woefully small compared to the immense german war machine this required a massive number of recruits on a short notice initially recruitment did not pose a problem for the british recruitment centers were literally overrun with volunteers however as the war which had been predicted to be a short conflict progressed and casualties mounted recruitment slowed to a trickle this is when propaganda began to play its crucial role much of british propaganda appealed to a sense of national honor posters and pamphlets aimed to produce guilt among the men who had not volunteered for service from the start however great britain was forced to use its most powerful and persuasive propaganda weapon the demonization of the enemy germany also employed these tactics but they were nothing in comparison to the flood of atrocity stories and cultural animosity that great britain and later the usa would produce early in the twentieth century the political scientist howard lassell stated so great are the psychological resistances to war in most nations that every war must appear to be a war of defense against a menacing murderous aggressor there must be no ambiguity about whom the public is to hate 47 the anti german propaganda produced by great britain focused the anger and anxiety of the populace into a hatred of the savage and barbaric huns much of this was accomplished through atrocity stories as aaron delwiche has observed the atrocity story implies that war is only brutal when practiced by the enemy delwiche it is easier to kill a monster than a man by far the most powerful assortment of atrocity stories produced during the war was the report of the committee on alleged german outrages better known as the bryce report named after james bryce the head of the committee contained within the pages of this officially sanctioned report were records of nearly every atrocity that it was possible for a german soldier to commit against the populace of belgium the most shocking accounts were those that described the killing or torture of women and children while it is certain that such atrocities occurred during the war the tendency of the report to dwell on the more sensational eyewitness accounts let to its eventually being discredited translated into 30 languages by 1915 the bryce report stoked the righteous indignation of the allied populace and dramatically increased recruitment for the cause of defeating germany eventually as the war neared its conclusion british and german propaganda was overshadowed by the enormous amount generated by the united states yet the damage had been done the emergence of propaganda in world war one set the standard for wars to follow and sanctioned the deception of civilians and the demonization of the enemy in the end the point is not really the differences between german and british propaganda but in their similarities both nations were driven by a philosophy that marked an important moment in cultural history the opening of a vast gap between the official truth and the undisclosed reality of war sources cited delwiche aaron of fraud and force fast woven domestic propaganda during the first world war taken from http www firstworldwar com features propaganda htm gt on march 3 2007 fussell paul the great war and modern memory new york oxford 1975 lasswell harold propaganda techniques in world war i london m i t press 1927 m l sanders and philip m taylor british propaganda during the first world war london macmillan 1982 welch david germany propaganda and total war new jersey rutgers 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