[This is a press, although the original source doesn’t feature the posters you will see featured here. I changed a link from the original article, the source number 2 went bust. I replaced it with a Wayback Machine link of it.]
In war «it is necessary to invent lies about the enemy»:
«During the First World War most countries publicized stories of enemy soldiers committing atrocities. It was believed that it would help persuade young men to join the armed forces. As one British general pointed out after the war: «to make armies go on killing one another it is necessary to invent lies about the enemy». These atrocity stories were then fed to newspapers who were quite willing to publish them. British newspapers accused German soldiers of a series of crimes including: gouging out the eyes of civilians, cutting off the hands of teenage boys, raping and sexually mutilating women, giving children hand grenades to play with, bayoneting babies and the crucifixion of captured soldiers.» [1]
With Executive Order 2594, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson established the «Committee on Public Information» to propagandize Americans into supporting U.S. entry into the war.
«Germans were referred to collectively as the “Hun” and the “Prussian Python.” Political cartoons and posters conveyed the image of a raging beast ready to devour innocent women and children. Earlier British propaganda was released accusing German soldiers of bayoneting Belgian babies as they marched through that neutral country.»[2]
«Demonization
A second propaganda technique used by the CPI was demonization of the enemy. «So great are the psychological resistances to war in modern nations,» wrote Lasswell «that every war must appear to be a war of defense against a menacing, murderous aggressor. There must be no ambiguity about who the public is to hate.» American propaganda was not the only source of anti-German feeling, but most historians agree that the CPI pamphlets went too far in portraying Germans as depraved, brutal aggressors. For example, in one CPI publication, Professor Vernon Kellogg asked «will it be any wonder if, after the war, the people of the world, when they recognize any human being as a German, will shrink aside so that they may not touch him as he passes, or stoop for stones to drive him from their path?»
A particularly effective strategy for demonizing Germans was the use of atrocity stories. «A handy rule for arousing hate,» said Lasswell «is, if at first they do not enrage, use an atrocity. It has been employed with unvarying success in every conflict known to man.» Unlike the pacifist, who argues that all wars are brutal, the atrocity story implies that war is only brutal when practiced by the enemy. Certain members of the CPI were relatively cautious about repeating unsubstantiated allegations, but the committee’s publications often relied on dubious material. After the war, Edward Bernays, who directed CPI propaganda efforts in Latin America, openly admitted that his colleagues used alleged atrocities to provoke a public outcry against Germany. Some of the atrocity stories which were circulated during the war, such as the one about a tub full of eyeballs or the story of the seven-year old boy who confronted German soldiers with a wooden gun, were actually recycled from previous conflicts. In his seminal work on wartime propaganda, Lasswell speculated that atrocity stories will always be popular because the audience is able to feel self-righteous indignation toward the enemy, and, at some level, identify with the perpetrators of the crimes…»[3]
Some posters from World War One that demonized Germans (These are not in the original source)…
A couple of posters for the British gents and ladies…
Obviously, there are more posters (and not all of them are dedicated to German-bashing). You can see some on this page…
http://www.rare-posters.com/ww1recruiting.html
You can even find an Android app (from which I saved all of these posters that I’m showing you now) that features these posters and more. Search World War I Posters on Jewgle Play and tap on the app made by Zeus Lab (I’m not affiliated in any shape, way, or form with them, BTW). Also, consider that it is a big application, it weighs over 90 MB. So, if you got lots of space on the internal memory, you may want to install it…
And, since it’s merely a press from somewhere else…
See more of it at: World War One Anti-German Propaganda – false atrocity stories of «bayoneting babies» and «making soap from corpses of their dead soldiers»
A dramatic & well done post. Keep up the good work.
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Thanks. You see that the original post doesn’t have these propaganda posters, either. I have a couple more which might be interesting as well to you. Not strictly anti-German, but they are unique (in my opinion) as well.
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You make improvements where ever you go. Always the best.
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Thanks. I try my best… Give me a while and maybe I will show ya some of these posters I told you.
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Great, I’d like to see them. Take your time, I have dishes to do.
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I have to catch up with you, so no prob. I did an errand to a crowded hardware store… No way I’d be staring dumbfaced at the dumbphone! Too many expensive things that could break! Too many kids running in that store! Hahahahahaha!
Besides, I try to walk and not go staring at the phone while I am doing it. I don’t want to win a Darwin Award. Drivers are reckless around here.
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You’ll never beat this lady:
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Hahahahahahaha! Kudos for keeping her cool, though… She was lucky, too.
See, kids? That’s why you don’t walk and text at the same time! You’ll embarass yourself!!
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As per my images…
This is a series I’ve found on which the posters appealed to the joos…
1/5 (I think)
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2/5
You will see in a short while a version in judespeak of this one…
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3/5
Version of same poster in Hebrew (judespeak)…
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4/5
I am unsure if it’s a relief for the joos or a relief APPEALING to the joos, anyway, here it goes…
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5/5
Notice that it makes the appeals in several languages…
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She actually went on TV and tried to sue the security guard for laughing at her.
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Really…? Oh dude… She really has to keep her mouth shut. She was the dumbo who was texting and walking at the same time.
What a nerve!!
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Ever notice that sometimes when you screw up you keep talking out of nervousness instead of shutting up?
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Yeah. That’s true.
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Those are great. Thanks for digging them up.
I found this strange one mentioned in a book. The woman is sinking to the sea bottom with her child.
http://mookie-harrison.com/uploads/9/6/8/2/96825746/published/enlist.jpg?1484049652
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Haunting… I don’t think the app from where I dug these up has it.
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Also, I think there is another for the Canadian joos… or the English ones. I don’t remember well, I’d have to check my app.
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I just google imaged war enlist posters. It was down aways.
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Yes. This app doesn’t have all of them. I think it would be several times bigger if it had them… It weighs over 90 MB on installation, and these are available offline. (You can even save them to your phone, which I did).
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1/2
I told you that I had a couple of posters that appealed to either Canadian joos or English joos… In fact, it appeals to the former but it uses the British flag. Hence my confusion…
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2/2
Same version of it but in judespeak…
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«You have cut my bonds and set me free.» Fuckers are always whining about being enslaved when they enslave everyone else.
OK, shutting down. Need to read a little. I posted a new article on the White Rally in Virginia and that’s all the news is blabbing about. See you later.
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Ok… See you tomorrow!
It’s already tomorrow here! For you it’s still yesterday, hahahahaha!
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No, for me it’s still TODAY. For you, yesterday. Duh.
Time travel sucks. Hahahah!
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Hahahahaha!!! I got warped…
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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