Propaganda in times of war: an exposition
December 3, 2012 in Culture by Bart van Hoorn
By Bart van Hoorn The ‘Nationaal Oorlogs- en Verzetsmuseum’ is showing war posters in a small presentation. Even though De kracht van propaganda (the power of propaganda) was composed for high school students’ museum classes, it gets everyone thinking. What power can expressions of images and temptation of indiscriminate one-liners have? During the Second World War the most important form of propaganda was the poster. People could neglect texts written in newspapers, spoken on the radio or at political gatherings. But everyone could see the clear images in bright colours, and those images stuck. Joseph Goebbels said the following [...]
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