WAR PROPAGANDA
WHERE BRITAIN FAILS. STARK FACTS NECESSARY. German propaganda films of the war in Russia which fell into British possession while they were being sent to South America have been edited by the Ministry of Information and shown throughout the country. Except for one shot they do little more than indicate the efficiency of the German army.
The exception, in the second film released, shows a row of bodies slaughtered by the Nazis. More shots like them could be shown with advantage. for it is a fact that, even today, there is a large section of the public still sloppily complacent that “the Germans simply can’t win,” writes a London correspondent. Stark facts are still necessary to instil into them the need for a 100 per cent war effort. One of the dull patches of Britain’s war machine has admittedly been its propaganda and handling of war news. The Ministry of Information in the first year of the war was a synonym for ridicule. «t is an interesting change to find that a proclaimed propaganda film has won the warmest approval both in Britain and in America. It is “Target for Tonight,” which tells the simple, unadorned story of the crew of a Wellington bomber carrying out a raid.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1941, Page 6
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210WAR PROPAGANDA Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1941, Page 6
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