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"In the Second World War, the home fronts of many countries became as important as the battle fronts. As governments tried to win and hold the trust of domestic and international audiences, communication became central to their efforts. This volume offers cutting-edge research by leading and emerging scholars on how information was used, distributed and received during the war. With a transnational approach encompassing Germany, Iberia, the Arab world and India, it demonstrates that the Second World War was as much a war of ideas and influence as one of machines and battles. Simon Eliot, Marc Wiggam and the contributors address the main communication problems faced by Allied governments, including how to balance the free exchange of information with the demands of national security and wartime alliances, how to frame war aims differently for belligerent, neutral and imperial audiences and how to represent effectively a variety of communities in wartime propaganda. In doing so, they reveal the contested and transnational character of the ways in which information was conveyed during the Second World War. Allied Communication during the Second World War offers innovative and nuanced perspectives on the thin border between information and propaganda during this global war and will be vital reading for World War II and media historians alike"--Bloomsbury Collections. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Communications and Propaganda and the Second World War The home front Notes Abbreviations Introduction Notes Chapter 1: The Ministry of Information on the British Home Front Prewar planning Unresolved questions “Go to it”? Efficiency over power The Campaigns Division Legacies Conclusion Notes Chapter 2: Lend to Defend: The National Savings Committee During the Second World War Themed weeks Competition Notes Chapter 3: A Citizen-soldier “Must Know What He Fights For and Love What He Knows”: The Work of the Army Bureau of Current Affairs between 1941 and 1945 Teaching the troops Theater of war Conclusion Notes Chapter 4: Britain To-day, Bulletins from Britain, and Britain: Some Semi-official British Periodicals in the United States During the Second World War Competing periodicals? A new approach Notes Chapter 5: Teamwork: Carlton Moss, US Propaganda Film, and the Fight for Black Visibility in the Second World War The Negro Soldier and African American Memory Teamwork: Imagining Double Victory Forgetting Teamwork: Double Victory Denied Notes Chapter 6: Allied War Correspondents’ Resistance to Political Censorship in the Second World War North Africa The German surrender story Conclusion Notes Chapter 7: “The Rot Must Be Stopped Even at the Cost of Some Public Discussion”: Anti-Semitism in the Polish Forces as a Crisis of Policy and Public Information Anti-Semitism and the soldiers Poland The UK The activists The Jewish community Denouement Conclusion Notes Chapter 8: “For a German Audience We Do Not Use Appeals for Sympathy on Behalf of Jews as a Propaganda Line”: The BBC German Service and the Holocaust, 1938–1945 The BBC German Service in British foreign policy and war on Germany From Kristallnacht to the outbreak of war, November 1938–August 1939 From the outbreak of war to the German attack on the Soviet Union, September 1939–June 1941 From the war against the Soviet Union to the defeat of Germany, June 1941–May 1945 Notes Chapter 9: Inventing a New Kind of German: The BBC German Service and the Bombing War The voice of Britain Imagined audiences Telling the truth about bombing Notes Chapter 10: Diverging Neutrality in Iberia: The British Ministry of Information in Spain and Portugal During the Second World War Notes Chapter 11: “Innocent Efforts”: The Brotherhood of Freedom in the Middle East During the Second World War The Brotherhood’s origins, 1940–41 The Brotherhood expands, 1941–43 From oral propaganda to “Education for Citizenship,” 1943–45 The Brotherhood after the war Notes Chapter 12: “The Meek Ass between Two Burdens?” Introduction The BBC in India Insights into BBC war programming Imperial soft power and the BBC Impact of BBC India programming Conclusion Notes Contributors Index "In the Second World War, the home fronts of many countries became as important as the battle fronts. As governments tried to win and hold the trust of domestic and international audiences, communication became central to their efforts. This volume offers cutting-edge research by leading and emerging scholars on how information was used, distributed and received during the war. With a transnational approach encompassing Germany, Iberia, the Arab world and India, it demonstrates that the Second World War was as much a war of ideas and influence as one of machines and battles. Simon Eliot, Marc Wiggam and the contributors address the main communication problems faced by Allied governments, including how to balance the free exchange of information with the demands of national security and wartime alliances, how to frame war aims differently for belligerent, neutral and imperial audiences and how to represent effectively a variety of communities in wartime propaganda. In doing so, they reveal the contested and transnational character of the ways in which information was conveyed during the Second World War. Allied Communication during the Second World War offers innovative and nuanced perspectives on the thin border between information and propaganda during this global war and will be vital reading for World War II and media historians alike."-- Provided by publisher