Anti-German Propaganda during WWI
German soldier bayonets a baby “for God, Fatherland and King.” American recruitment posters Right: The evil German “hun” removes the hands from a murdered Belgian woman.
Crimes and Propaganda
The First World War was arguably the first war whose outcome was determined to no small degree by atrocity propaganda. Lies about German war conduct, mainly, though not exclusively, invented and spread by the British government, kept the British and French public in some fighting spirit and eventually brought the U.S. into the conflict, making the scale finally tip to one side.
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