Document 1 Basic Ground Rules of British Propaganda
during World War II ( June 21, 1939) 2
Document 2 President Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” Speech
(January 6, 1941) 10
Document 3 J. B. Priestley, Extract from His Radio Talks,
Postscripts (1940) 21
Document 4 Opening Scenes from the Why We Fight
Documentary Series (1942–1945) 28
Document 5 “Remember Dec. 7th!” (USA, 1941) 35
Document 6 “Adolf Hitler Is Victory!” (R. Gerhard Zill, 1943) 38
Document 7 Vasily Selivanov, “Glory to Our Great People,
a Victorious Nation!” (1945) 42
Document 8 “You Never Know Who’s Listening”: A Silk
Handkerchief Designed by “Fougasse”
(Cyril Kenneth Bird) for the Ministry of
Information’s “Careless Talk Cost Lives”
Campaign (circa 1942) 55
Document 9 Potato Pete’s Recipe Book (GB, 1941) 57
Document 10 Boo-Boo Brings Down an Enemy Airplane (1943) 61
Document 11 A Nazi Leaflet during the Battle of Britain (1941) 64
Document 12 Nazi Anti-British Postcard (1942) 66
Document 13 German Anti-Bolshevik Poster: “Europe’s Victory
Is Your Prosperity” (1942) 67
Document 14 A Film Poster for the Film, Alexander Nevsky
(1938–1941) 70
Document 15 Government Information Manual for the
Motion Picture Industry (Sections I‑VI, USA, 1942) 75
Document 16 Joseph Goebbels and the Total War Campaign (1943) 82
Document 17 Abram Games’s Striking Recruitment Poster
for the Ministry of Information (1943) 88
Document 18 “Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl” (Canada, 1941) 91
Document 19 “Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases”
(GB, circa 1942) 94
Document 20 “Hello Boy Friend, Coming MY Way?”
(GB, Venereal Disease Poster, circa 1943) 97
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