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The use of airborne leaflet propaganda during times of conflict was first seen in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, when the defenders of Paris dropped leaflets over the besieging German troops from a hot air balloon, proclaiming their defiance. However, hot air balloons and the like were slow and unwieldy, and it wasn't until the First …
In 1943, Walt Disney produced a 10-minute animation purporting to document the process by which German children were turned into "perfect little Nazis". The aim was to demonstrate to the American populace how the Nazis were indoctrinating their sons with the aim of creating an army totally loyal to Hitler. The resulting soldiers are good …
Continue reading Walt Disney’s “The Making of the Nazi” (1943)
My choir is singing a lot of Britten this term, as it is his 100th anniversary. Most of our repertoire would be fairly well-known to Britten fans, but one very strange piece came as a surprise to me: 'Advance Democracy'. It was written in response to the Munich Crisis of 1938, when the Allies, in …