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Anti-German Propaganda

Anti-German Propaganda - false atrocity stories of "bayoneting babies", "making soap from corpses of dead soldiers", etc In war "it is necessary to invent lies about the enemy": "During the War most countries publicized stories of enemy soldiers committing atrocities. It was believed that it would help persuade young men to join the armed forces. As one British general pointed out after the war: "to make armies go on killing one another it is necessary to invent lies about the enemy". These atrocity stories were then fed to newspapers who were quite willing to publish them. British newspapers accused German soldiers of a series of crimes including: gouging out the eyes of civilians, cutting off the hands of teenage boys, raping and sexually mutilating women, giving children hand grenades to play with, bayoneting babies and the crucifixion of captured soldiers." With Executive Order 2594, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson established the "Committee on Public Information" to propagandize Americans into supporting U.S. entry into the war. "Germans were referred to collectively as the “Hun” and the “Prussian Python.” Political cartoons and posters conveyed the image of a raging beast ready to devour innocent women and children. Earlier British propaganda was released accusing German soldiers of bayoneting Belgian babies as they marched through that neutral country." British Army propagandists fabricate story that Germans used the corpses of their dead soldiers to make soap: Sound fimiliar? How many lies were made up during WW2 about the Germans that is still believed today? 1 could only wonder..