The Mass Media in the Great War: "Everything for Our Country"
Abstract
In the First World War the mass media played, for the first time in History, an important role in the development of a war. A real deluge of pamphlets, cartels, cartoons, poems, songs and, also, movies, was flooding the belligerent countries. The allies designed their propaganda with much more skill that the Germans, prisoners of an authoritarian State that believed unnecessarily a mobilization of his population, accustomed to obeying the governmental slogans without questioning them. It was not until the end of the war, that the European citizens discovered the magnitude of the lies and of the manipulation of which they had been victims.
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