Wednesday 1 April 2009

Did Propaganda and Censorship work?

Propaganda
Propaganda was used throughout WWI by both the British and German's to control both the public's actions and perspective. It came in a variety of forms, from posters to stamps.


Censorship
Censorship was extremely heavy during WWI, it was used to stop the people of Britain knowing the true horror's of the war, and there were specific rules. Newspapers were prohibited from publishing stories which may have injured the morale of Britain, and were only allowed to publish "good news", a good example of this was in October 1914 when the HMS Audacious was sunk, and due to the censorship in place it was not reported to the public.

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