{"id":385145,"date":"2018-11-15T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T12:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/propaganda-during-world-war-i\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T12:24:51","slug":"propaganda-during-world-war-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/propaganda-during-world-war-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda During World War I"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These stories are not unique cases from a remote war. The same methods are constantly rinsed and repeated, the mentality in our ruling elites is the same, and the risk of a major conflict is as great today as in 1914.<\/em><\/p>\n

These examples concentrate mostly on British\/American perception management and propaganda. First of all, because they are masters of the art, and secondly, as victors they still dominate the narrative.<\/p>\n

Arthur Ponsonby and Falsehood in Wartime<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the Great War came a huge backlash of disillusion and revulsion. Calmly analysed, most of what had been told in the war turned out to be lies and half-truths.\u00a0\u00abFalsehood in War-time, Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War<\/a>\u00bb<\/em>\u00a0was the title of a book published in 1928. Written by\u00a0Arthur, Ponsonby,<\/strong>\u00a0it discussed 20 instances of lies in wartime.<\/p>\n


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\nFalsehood In War Time:…<\/a><\/span><\/span>
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\n<\/span>The contents of the book can be summed up in the\u00a0Ten Commandments of War Propaganda:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. We do not want war.<\/li>\n
  2. The opposite party alone is guilty of war.<\/li>\n
  3. The enemy is the face of the devil.<\/li>\n
  4. We defend a noble cause, not our own interest.<\/li>\n
  5. The enemy systematically commits cruelties; our mishaps are involuntary.<\/li>\n
  6. The enemy uses forbidden weapons.<\/li>\n
  7. We suffer small losses, those of the enemy are enormous.<\/li>\n
  8. Artists and intellectuals back our cause.<\/li>\n
  9. Our cause is sacred.<\/li>\n
  10. All who doubt our propaganda, are traitors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Enemy Is the Face of the Devil<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    The perception of German atrocities in World War 1 has had is up and downs during the decades.\u00a0 They \u2018Huns\u2019 were indeed quite ruthless, and freely executed several thousand suspected\u00a0franc-tireurs\u00a0<\/em>and hostages when they invaded Belgium and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    These stories are not unique cases from a remote war. The same methods are constantly rinsed and repeated, the mentality in our ruling elites is the same, and the risk of a major conflict is as great today as in 1914. These examples concentrate mostly on British\/American perception management and propaganda. First of all, because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}