Propaganda at Home and Abroad | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)
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This article summarizes and compares the principal arguments and strategies of propaganda at the home front, the military front, as well as in neutral and enemy countries. These included the Manichean approach, the ridiculing of the enemy, the use of scapegoats, the qualities of holding out, duty and sacrifice, the rewards promised for after the war, and the campaign against the enemy’s political and cultural conceptions. The techniques of oral and printed indoctrination and the difficult distribution of the propaganda in neutral and enemy countries will then be analysed. The indoctrination of three target groups is studied separately: the propaganda against “own” soldiers, the enemy’s soldiers and the enemy’s minorities. Finally, the article discusses the thorny question of the effects of propaganda.
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