Propaganda

**Propaganda by Lucas**

· Propaganda got the people to know only what the government wanted them to know. · All forms of information was controlled to ensure that that everybody thought in the way the government did. · Newspapers were to print what the government wanted. · The newspapers of Britain were happy to play ball. · They printed headlines that were designed to stir up emotions regardless of if they were accurate or not. · Here are two of the most infamous headlines. · “ // Belgium child’s hands cut off by Germans” · “Germans crucify Canadian officer”  // · These were to develop and strengthen the hatred that was in Britain. · False headlines were also tolerated and encouraged in Germany. · Two more headlines were, · “French doctors infect German wells with plague germs.” · “German prisoners blinded by Allied captors.” · Monks in Antwerp were forced to ring bells to celebrate the Germans occupation of the city to the monks refusing to do this and being tried to the clappers of the bells and being used as human clappers and being killed. · One story that’s seems to be false is that, “There were numerous stories in Britain of German soldiers parading round Belgium towns with babies on their bayonets.” · The one thing that suffered in the war was the truth. · British newspapers published casualty figures that were acceptable to the government but less than accurate. · The French authorities simply clamped down on the truth. · Anybody caught spreading the truth regarding Verdun was liable for arrest as an agent provocateur. · A German newspaper reported that, "In Flanders the British yesterday again attempted to regain the ground they had lost. In the afternoon they attacked from both sides but the attack completely broke down. An evening attack further east failed, with severe British losses."