Mildred Gillars Propaganda

“We tend to think of language as something we use; we are much less often aware of the way we are used by language” (Cross 247). There are different types of communication and communication styles, for example, verbal, non-verbal, and visual. Propaganda can be found in all forms of communication. It is used for persuading, coercing, and manipulating ones feelings, actions, and belief of things in a certain way. Donna Woolfolk Cross believes, “The only defense to become wise to the ways of words” (247).

Once she moved to Germany, she worked alongside of previously mentioned Monti. According to Dale Harper’s article on Gillars, her propaganda program was known as “Home Sweet Home”, as she was referred to as Axis Sally (1). Once the war was over, the trouble she caused surfaced. All of her broadcasts were recorded and used to charge her on multiple accounts of treason. However, she was found guilty and convicted of only one charge regarding her play entitled Vision of Invasion (Harper, 1). In this play, she acted as a mother who’s American soldier son died on a burning ship in attempt to cross the English Channel. Gillars was sentenced with 10- 30 years in jail and a $10,000 fine, eligible for parole in ten

During World War II, a variety of US radio companies were effective in arranging special services, such as creating different radio shows and sending information. The radio was able to give everyone an update about the war, allowing people to be prepared if anything was to happen. It was the greatest type of medium at the time to provide amusement, and to broadcast propaganda.

During and after World War One, the United States government released a lot of propaganda to encourage its citizens to enlist in the army and change their domestic habit to support their soldier who fought on the front. In the Library of Congress, this poster is created by Alfred Everitt Orr in 1918. It aims at encouraging the citizens to buy the Victory Liberty Loan issued in 1919. The image shows the reunion of a soldier who return from Europe with his family. The soldier hugs his wife and holds his son with helmet hang on his neck. The son smiles with closing eyes and enjoys embracing his father. The wife admires the medal on the soldier’s chest. The bright color of the background indicates the warm and happy atmosphere of the scene and

(U) In the book Propaganda and Persuasion, Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O’Donnell provide a ten-question framework for analyzing persuasive techniques. This paper analyzes two political advertisements, “Peace Little Girl (Daisy)” from the 1964 U.S. presidential election and “Prouder, Stronger, Better (Morning in America)” from the 1984 election, using Jowett and O’Donnell’s Framework and other models.

Sophie Scholl was an anti-nazi protester that was killed in February 22,1943 in Munich,Germany. She was born in May 9,1921 Forchtenberg, Germany. She was buried in February 24,1943.She started out as a kindergarten teacher and decided to move on to a biology degree. There she met her brother and a few of his friends. They started protesting against the nazi government. There group was called the White-rose which, consisted of 6 people.They spread 6 different leaflets around the campus and many other places and people started to agree what they said. One day Sophie and her brother were passing leaflets but Sophie had a few left so she tossed out in the hallway ,but that frantic action got them caught by the local janitor and they got turned into the nazi government and were trialed for treason (lisciotto, 2007, para.15).

Even ads for the WAC got better as Colonel Betty Bandel was in charge. She soon gained a permission to start with her own campaign. (Weatherford 6) According to Doris Weatherford in her book American Women during World War II: An Encyclopedia, Betty Bandel soon “understood that potential enlistees wanted less glamour and more assurance that sacrificing the best years of their young lives really would matter.” (6)

Fortunate for America, the female employees were not only physically cut out to work, but mentally cut out as well. At the request of President Roosevelt, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was formed. The OSS, principally dedicated to espionage, regulated thousands of undercover woman aiming to help the war effort. Of the 16,000 espionage agents, 14,000 were released to foreign enemy turf. America needed an edge on the Axis powers, and female spies were the optimum choice. One of the most influential female spy’s, part of the OSS, was Virginia Hall. Disguised as an elderly cook and cow tender in France, Hall was able to spot out safe fields for supply drops and listen in on

Propaganda was written by Joseph Goebbels he also made radios cheap so that the ordinary citizens could afford it (“Radio in Nazi Germany” 1). Goebbels believed that radio was the easiest, quickest,

The intention of the illustration “Camouflage” created by James Montgomery Flagg during World War I, was to nurture the burgeoning anti-German sentiment in America. Flagg’s key concept echoes mainstream America’s distrust of the loyalty of German-Americans. The character in the image is outwardly projecting American loyalty, but privately rooting for a German victory. Flagg supports this point by playing on American’s stereotypes of the typical German with a portly body type and, as evident by the man hoisting a lager of beer, a drunkard. The character is also outfitted in traditional German attire and smoking a German pipe. The image is punctuated by the character waving the American flag out the open window while exclaiming “Hoch Der Kaiser,” the German rallying cry meaning “Up with the Kaiser.”

Nazi would publicize their message through radios. They had controlled and produced 70% of radios and utilized them for the purpose of propaganda.

The radio was used as one of the main methods of propaganda. From a speech representatives of the press and radio in March 1933, Goebbels claimed “I hold radio to be the most modern and the most important instrument of mass influence that exists anywhere.” The Reich Radio Company brought all German broadcasting under Nazi control by 1925.

After that, she spent the remainder of the war ensuring the safety of Jewish families. And she didn’t stop trying to help even after the war had ended. In an article by Margie Burns was stated, “Even after the war she worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration’s Displaced Persons camps in 1945 (Burns 1).

Psychological effect of media was most early highlighted by the work “Hypodermic Needle” (Laswell, 1938) which described the effects of propaganda on radio listeners.

After the war she returned to Germany and this is what she wrote in her book, “The Hiding Place,” speaking about one of the most difficult times she was faced with granting forgiveness.