The men of Britain saw only the good parts of the war that occurred because the government would censor the material that was shown to the public so that they did not the true horror of the war that was being fought, however the government did allow journalists through but these journalists had to be approved first and there material was also censored if it showed too much of the truth, moreover not even soldiers letters were left to the way they were written even these personal notes were censored. ... The government also used books as a method of propaganda because no matter what is going on...

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Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. ... As he notes in the beginning of the book, "the Holocaust took place because at the most basic level individual human beings killed other human beings in large numbers over an extended period of time. ... The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... Christophe...

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As a result, Hitler served 9 months in prison for the Beer Hall Putsch and wrote a book titled Mein Kampf (My Struggle) outlining his vision for the future Germany. By late 1924 Hitler was release on parole, after serving a portion his five year sentence, and quickly regained control of the Nazi Party, noting that any future seizure must come by legal measures through Parliamentary elections. ...

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Propaganda among other sorts of techniques are used in three ostensibly opposed forms of governance to achieve similar goals. Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National S...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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