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Films
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An Airman’s Letter to His Mother (British propaganda short by Michael Powell, 1941):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kywoXa8G-Hk
Divide and Conquer (1943): http://www.archive.org/details/Dividean1943_2
Donald Duck - "Der Fuehrer's Face" (1943):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBNXHeCCdRM&feature=related.
It Can’t Last (US Navy film, 1944): http://www.archive.org/details/Dividean1943_2
London Can Take It (1940): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLgfSDtHFt8
Looney Toons_Confessions of a Nutzy Spy (1943): http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_video/3724Confusions_Of_A_Nutzy_Spy.html
Looney Toons_Daffy the Commando (1943): http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_video/3703-DaffyThe_Commando.html
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Looney Toons_The Duckators (1942):
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1390519574176708696#
Moscow Strikes Back (1944): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiirTBnTUbk (This is part 1 of
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7, you can scan through other parts of the documentary and queue up smaller sections via
Wikimedia options located: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Strikes_Back)
Popeye_Spinach Fer Britain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHo91px5YTs
Private SNAFU – Booby Traps (1944): http://www.archive.org/details/booby_traps
Salute to the Navy (1943) : http://www.archive.org/details/SaluteToTheNavy
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When the Day Well? (Cavalcanti, 1942): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2302704134696776679# (this is the full version of the film, skip to sections later in the film for
conflict between English villagers and Nazi soldiers)
Why We Fight: Prelude to War (Frank Capra): http://www.archive.org/details/PreludeToWar.
Walt Disney_Victory Through Air Power: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV65XRN1lU0.
Walt Disney_Education for Death aka Hitler’s Children (1943):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqCeEG5hs0
Walt Disney_Reason and Emotion (1943):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JStrcfHr8AY&feature=related
Avenge December 7 (US war bonds promotional short, 1942):
http://www.archive.org/details/AvengeDe1942.
Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcFuHGHfYwE
Techniques of Propaganda
(available via Open Directory Project)
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Der Fuehrer's Face - Synopsis and images from the Disney film.
German Propaganda Archive - Collection of translations of material from the Nazi era, pre-1933 and
1933-1945, as well as similar material related to East Germany in the postwar period. Includes
posters and other images.
Gray and Black Radio Propaganda Against Nazi Germany - Extensively illustrated paper describing
the Allied effort to undermine Germany through unidentified or misidentified radio broadcasts.
Lord Haw Haw - Archive of sound files made from the English-language broadcasts of Nazi
propagandist and Irish national William Joyce.
Posters and Facsimiles: World War II - Exhibit of war-related posters from the holdings of the
National Archives and Records Administration.
Propaganda Leaflets of the Second World War - Focuses on the thousands of sheets dropped from
aircraft or fired in artillery shells. Includes images of leaflets and detailed information on their use,
as well as translations of the text.
Signal Magazine 1940-1945 - Features documents and articles analyzing the impact and relevance of
the illustrated German propaganda periodical distributed in wartime Europe. Includes image gallery.
The Collecting of Propaganda Leaflets - Examples, including those written in Japanese and Russian,
techniques for distributing the materials, and reaction from the German government.
The Propagander - Discusses early origins with examples of Nazi, Allied, and Soviet posters and
comics.
Wartime Propaganda - Introduces middle and high-school students and teachers to the concepts
and applications of propaganda in a war scenario with examples.
Propaganda Posters Archives
World War II Poster Collection from Northwestern University: The Government and Geographic
Information and Data Services Department at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive
collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945.
Posters from World War II from San Francisco State University: part of lesson plan on Japanese
Internment Camps and aftermath of Pearl Harbor
World War II Intense Propaganda Images from Life Magazine: Life magazine archives of Allied and Axis
propaganda imagery includes Nazi propaganda aimed at US and British soldiers in the field and antiSemitic imagery from the 1930’s.
German Propaganda Archives: posters from the German Federal Archives includes images from 19331945 in Germany and German occupied territories.
Japanese Propaganda Posters: images directed at Japanese troops and Australian soldiers includes
imagery of American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Films, Music & Art: comprehensive Australian educational site on
World War II films, printed and animated cartoons and essays on history of propaganda during the time
period.
University of North Texas Libraries: web directory of major surface internet sites that focus on
propaganda imagery during World War II, includes a short summary of each site.
Library of Congress American Memory Archives: Posters archives for World War I and II
Ebooks
ABC-CLIO Ebooks; login is required to open the links
Russell, T., J. D. Ciment (2006). THE HOME FRONT ENCYCLOPEDIA - V1. In
The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World
Wars I and II. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Tucker, S.C., P. Mary Roberts (2005). World War II. In World War II: A Student Encyclopedia.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Cull, N.J., D. Welch, D. H. Culbert (2003). Contributors. In Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A
Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.