The Propaganda Warriors: America's Crusade Against Nazi Germany
Title | The Propaganda Warriors: America's Crusade Against Nazi Germany |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1996 |
Authors | Laurie, Clayton |
Number of Pages | 384 |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
City | Lawrence, KS |
Abstract | During World War II, thousands of people would lead or participate in America's massive propaganda campaign against Nazi Germany. In The Propaganda Warriors Clayton Laurie fully unveils for the first time this unprecedented, ambitious, and embattled wartime enterprise. Laurie details the creation, evolution, and field operations of the overseas branch of the Office of War Information (OWI); the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS); and the Army-dominated Psychological Warfare units (PWB and PWD) serving the Allied forces in Europe. These agencies, Laurie shows, were as much at war with each other as with the Third Reich. Each agency eagerly developed its own distinct form of propaganda. Despite these conflicts, American propaganda did accelerate the drive toward victory, thanks to the emergence of the PWB and PWD, which after 1943 controlled the production of American propaganda against Germany, bending ideological agendas to serve the military's purely tactical objectives. |
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