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Europe 1915
Propaganda purposes
• Maintain morale on the
Home Front and encourage
people to give time & $$ to
the war effort
• Portray the enemy as an evil
that needs to be fought
• Recruit more soldiers
• Stop info publication that
might help the enemy
• Psychologically dishearten
enemy troops
• Give civilians a government
approved version of the war
Forms of Propaganda
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Posters
Stories & leaflets
Paintings
Photographs &
films
• Books
• Newspaper articles
• Postcards
Posters
“The struggle of the Red Knight
with Dark Forces”
British War Propaganda Bureau,
Dec. 1914
“ A third form of mutilation, the cutting of one
or both hands, is frequently said to have
taken place. In some cases, this mutilation
may be the consequence of a cavalry
charge up a village street, hacking and
slashing everything in the way; in others
the victim may have held a weapon, or the
motive may have been the theft of rings.”
Propaganda art