His Majesty's Pornographer (WW2 Propaganda)

Found this site about British psychological operations in WW2: :shock: :blush:
http://www.seftondelmer.co.uk/hmg.htm

Here is an example of his work:

Jan

:lol: :lol: :lol: .

I donĀ“t know where the hell you found that,and i canĀ“t believe :lol: .
thanks for the searching jan!.

Im afraid that kind of propaganda can be fake nazi propaganda,for making difamous the germans.

Just goes to prove that all IS fair in Love and Warā€¦

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The quote on the drawing says that the Fremdarbeiter (foreign workers from occupied countries forced to work in Germany to free German men for military duty) is inserting ā€œitā€ strongly. The idea behind it was to damage morale in the German army by making the soldiers become jealous and suspicious of their women at home.
If you go to the site and click on table of contents, it will lead you to a site about British propaganda and psychological operations in WW2.

Jan

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: nice quote,the foreign workers are strongly insterting ā€œitā€ :lol:

with more propaganda of such time,the german army could change to allied side :stuck_out_tongue:

These were really used. Although this specific item is really a rarity.
The allies made a lot of use of women on propaganda leaflets. Some examples from my site can be seen at:

http://members.home.nl/ww2propaganda/slid23a.htm

Iā€™ve read in more than one place that the biggest effect they had on morale was to improve the morale of the Allied agents distributing the leaflets!

I wouldnā€™t underestimate the power of this sort of thing to a young lad far from his loved ones.

They donā€™t work on everyone but they donā€™t have to. The weak link in the section can be broken by this and he pulls the section down with him.

NCOs in the British army receive training to ensure that all their charges are looked after to prevent this sort of thing haveing much affect.

Think to the film (platoon) when the lad gets a tape message from his girlfriend ditching him for peace reasons. The faces around him say the same thing. ā€œIf it could happen to him, then it could happen to meā€.

The ā€œpeaceā€ movement of America during Vietnam were heavily used to affect the soldiers. Young girls who were in college were activly encouraged by zealous peaceniks to dump soldiers. They may not have known why, but the puppeteers at the top did.

Other things like taunting the greiving loved ones also occured.

This particular leaflet probably wouldnā€™t have much affect as it shows a foreigner with the girl. This would have been heavily frowned on in German society at the time, so he would have known she would be too scared to do it any way.

The most important reason for a propagandists to use women pics like the one I show here:

from

http://members.home.nl/ww2propaganda/sell1.htm
(were you can also read the back of the leaflet)

is that they want to attract the attention of the enemy soldier in the field. So the picture is not the important factor! The text on the rest of the leaflet is important as it is trying to undermine the enemies soldiers will to fight.

Edited:
I tried to say that the picture is mostly meant as an attraction to let the enemy soldier pick up the leaflet. After it was picked up (because of an attractive nude picture) the text could start doing its poisoning workā€¦

Interesting, to say the leastā€¦ :shock:

hehehe!