Reporting WWII - Centre for Journalism
... In the summer of 1940 this team issued new regulations which handed the Home Secretary draconian powers to control the press. Most significant among these was Regulation 2D. This gave the Home Secretary authority to ban any newspaper which printed material “calculated to foment opposition to the pr ...
... In the summer of 1940 this team issued new regulations which handed the Home Secretary draconian powers to control the press. Most significant among these was Regulation 2D. This gave the Home Secretary authority to ban any newspaper which printed material “calculated to foment opposition to the pr ...
Underground media in German-occupied Europe
Underground media in German-occupied Europe refers to various kinds of clandestine media which emerged under German occupation during World War IIBy 1942, Nazi Germany occupied much of continental Europe. The widespread German occupation saw the fall of public media systems in Northern France, Belgium, Poland, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Northern Greece, and the Netherlands. All press systems were put under the ultimate control of Joseph Goebbels, the German Minister of Propaganda.Without control of the media, occupied populations began to create and publish their own uncensored newspapers, anti-Nazi pamphlets and radio broadcasts. Underground forms of media allowed for information sharing among the oppressed, helping them build solidarity, strengthen morale and, in some cases, stage uprisings.