Conscription,
Censorship and
Propaganda in
Germany
Recruitment & Conscription
Censorship
Propaganda
Source One
Source Three
Source Two
Source Four
GERMAN CROWDS
CHEERING TROOPS.
Recruitment &
Conscription
Whilst in many countries
orders were put out for
recruitment, Germany
already had conscription
in place. This image
shows the lines of
conscripted men
marching through the
streets, alongside women
as they marched on to
fight the war.
GERMAN TROOPS
HEADING OFF TO
WAR
Recruitment &
Conscription
HELP
US
WIN
http://images.google.com/imgres?
imgurl=http://www.earthstation1.com/Warposters/jc
kaelin/Help_Us_Win!_jk.jpg&imgrefurl=
MOBILISATION
ORDERS
http://www.worldwar1.com/foto/fww0101.jpg&imgrefurl=
Censorship
Before 1914 the German government kept tight
control of all press. Newspapers had not been
able to openly discuss the reasons for war. It
was not only information from the front that was
held from the public view after the war broke out
but the German people were never told about
peace demonstrations, international peace
efforts or low morale, casualties and desertions
on the western front.
Source One
Source Two
Source Three
Censorship
This extract is by
Altenhner, Florian
and briefly describes
the progression of
German censorship
during the war. This
extract also explains
the reasoning behind
the restrictions and
how it formed into its
later stages.
http://intellit.muskingum.edu/germany_folder/germanywwia-e.html
Censorship
The markings on this
letter are all the different
symbols of German
censorship. The markings
are all from the various
offices that the letter had
gone through.
Lower left-parcel
censorship
Upper left-examined
Middle top- Censorship
place
DOMESTIC REGISTERED
LETTER
http://phist.webpark.cz/cen/cen1.htm
Censorship
GERMAN STAMPS
MEANINGS
Bottom- pass on
Top- censorship place
Middle- back only openly permissible
These three minor sources are different
stamps that were used by the German
censorship offices as symbols to show that
mail had been through censorship
programs.
http://phist.webpark.cz/cen/cen1.htm
Propaganda
German propaganda in many ways followed the
British propaganda campaigns but with its own
little kicks of individualism. One of the major
differences was that Germany did not have to
promote recruitment. Taking on an anti-British
tone the German people were encouraged
through propaganda to hate the English. German
propaganda also worked to justify the actions of
the German government.
Source One
Source Three
Source Two
Source Four
Propaganda
Source A describes the German
Propaganda and the methods
that were used to lower morale
on the western front. These
methods were targeted at the
allied troops in order to drain the
Allied morale and is cleverly
conducted so to contain
inflammatory political matters in
order to do so.
Source A
http://www.psywarrior.com/GermanWWIPSYOP.html
Propaganda
The German poster Its their
fault illustrates the German
media and its reliance on
blaming the war on Britain and
the allied forces. The poster is
mainly for the public viewing
from the government who had
strict policies on what could and
could not be said about the war.
In order to give reasons for the
outbreak of war and gain
German support propaganda
blaming the allied forces was
used all over Germany.
ITS THEIR
FAULT!
Propaganda
This chant, publicized later
in the New York Times, 15
October, re-iterates the
chant of many German
civilians during the war. It
demonstrates the great
hate that had brewed over
the years of the war and
clearly symbolizes the
outcomes of the various
methods of propaganda
that had been used.
word,
Throughout the Fatherland make it
heard.
We will never forgo our hate,
We have all but a single hate.
We love as one, we hate as one,
We have one foe and one aloneENGLAND!
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Hasslied
Propaganda
The men depicted in this
photograph on the right are all
conscripted German soldiers.
The photograph was taken in
order to reinforce the idea of
high morale and adventure that
was to be had on the western
front. Whilst the photo was not
intentionally taken for these
purposes it was later used to
promote the war effort and
disguise the real effects of the
war.
www.csustan.edu/.../faculty/weikart/gerhist.htm