Download prop and censorship WW11 Lesson 3

Watch the British Army recruitments
adverts, what methods are they using
to recruit new soldiers?
YouTube - British Army Advert - Armoured Infantry
YouTube - Royal Marine Commandos - Promo
YouTube - British Army: Be The Best
YouTube - British Army: Be The Best
How does the British Army ‘advertise’ itself today?
British Army Website
Learning Objective: To understand how propaganda and
censorship were used during the Second world War.
Learning Outcome: By the end of the lesson you will be
able to and evaluate and explain propaganda techniques
and explain the need for censorship during the Second
World War.
Propaganda
Why do you think people at the time thought posters such as these were dull and
uninspiring?
Imagine you work for an advertising firm and have been appointed to advise the
Government on its propaganda posters. What advise would you give to improve
These posters?
What are the messages
Of these three posters?
How do they put their
Message across?
Censorship – What would you censor ?
Censorship
Censorship and propaganda played important roles in the Second World
War and were controlled by the Ministry of Information. The Government
Had emergency powers that enabled them to control information and
Ensure that the press did not publish and the BBC did not broadcast
Any information that may be helpful to the enemy and lower morale.
Make a copy of the table and Working in pairs you have to decide which
Of the following photographs the Ministry of Information would censor.
Censored
Not Censored
London street destroyed during Blitz
BBC - Archive - WWII: Dunkirk
Evacuation - News | Dunkirk
Churchill visits London during Blitz
Evacuation
German Bomber shot down
A family rescued during
Blitz
British equipment left on the
Beaches of Dunkirk
Similarities
Differences
Censorship
Propaganda
Make a copy of the table. Complete it to show the differences and
Similarities between censorship and propaganda during the wars
Source D – from a broadcast by the popular playwright and broadcaster
J.B Priestley 5th June 1940, the day after the Dunkirk evacuation ended.
Among those paddle steamers that will never return was one I knew well,
for it was the pride of our ferry service to the Isle of Wight.....And now
never again will we board at Cowes. She has paddled and churched away
forever. But now- look this little steamer, like all her brave and battered
sisters, is immortal. She will go sailing proudly down the years in the epic
of Dunkirk. And our great grandchildren, when they learn how we began
this war by snatching glory out of defeat, then swept on to victory, may
also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and
came back glorious.
What can you learn from Source D about the Dunkirk evacuation?
Try to make at least two inferences, supported from the source.
Lesson 3
Homework / Plenary
Propaganda and censorship were more effective
during the Second World War than the First World
War; Discuss