Campaigns and Posters

Why were there campaigns during the war?
The war meant that many things were going to be limited and rationed. As a result, posters/slogans were created to be a motivation and reminder for the population to avoid unnecessary consumption of food/clothes/equipment/etc. It encouraged them to turn to recycling, and saving whatever materials they could.

Some items that were recycled during WWII included:

• Tins and Metal - For aircraft and tanks, weapons etc.
• Boiled Bones - To make glue for aircraft and glycerine for explosives.
• Kitchen Waste - For feeding pigs, goats and chickens.
• Paper - for munitions.
• Rubber - for tyres (ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel).

Examples of Slogans during the War:

'Careless Talk Costs Lives'

'Dig For Victory''Look Out In The Blackout'

'V for Victory''Hitler will send no warning'

'Save kitchen waste for the pigs'

'Mothers, send them out of London'

'Careless talk costs'

The slogan 'Careless talk costs lives' was launched on February 6, 1940. It was the slogan of a nationwide campaign that intended to prevent people from gossiping and allowing important information from getting into the hands of the enemy.

Disney 1943 Children's Education about Hitler

Disney was involved in American propaganda. The video was banned though. It was considered racist.

Donald Duck - Führer's Face

Disney was involved in American's propaganda. Most of these types of propaganda cartoons were banned due to racism.

We're Gonna Have To Slap The Dirty Little Jap - Carson Robison

The song was sang by an American country music singer and songwriter named Carson Robison during World War II. This song was part of American propaganda.

Lyrics (a bit of American racism from 1941 called “We’re gonna have to slap, the dirty little Jap”)

We’re gonna have to slap the dirty little Jap
And Uncle Sam’s the guy who can do it
We’ll skin the streak of yellow from this sneaky little fellow
And he’ll think a cyclone hit him when he’s thru it
We’ll take the double crosser to the old woodshed
We’ll start on his bottom and go to his head
When we get thru with him he’ll wish that he was dead
We gotta slap the dirty little Jap

We’re gonna have to slap the dirty little Jap
And Uncle Sam’s the guy who can do it
The Japs and all their hooey will be changed into chop suey
And the rising sun will set when we get thru it
Their alibi for fighting is to save their face
For ancestors waiting in celestial space
We’ll kick their precious face down to the other place
We gotta slap the dirty little Jap

We’re gonna have to slap the dirty little Jap
And Uncle Sam’s the guy who can do it
We’ll murder Hirohito, massacre that slob Benito
Hang’em with that Shickle gruber when we’re thru it
We’ll search the highest mountain for the tallest tree
To build us a hanging post for the evil three
We’ll call in all our neighbors, let’em know their free
We gotta slap the dirty little Jap

The song was considered racist these days, so don't sing it but you can listen to it.

Prisoners' Treatment

This is one of the few pieces of Japanese black propaganda that is known. The same text is in Japanese on one side and English on the other. The black letter appears to be from the Japanese Army and berates the Americans who they acknowledge treat the Japanese prisoners well, for implying that the Japanese do not treat the Americans the same way.The letter, addressed to “Americans,” tells the Japanese that they will be treated well when captured by the Americans, and then claims that Americans receive the exact same good treatment when captured by the Japanese. This, by the same barbaric military that killed American and Filipino prisoners during the Bataan Death March. Just as the Indians used to tell the British that they were civilized while the English were still painting themselves blue, the Japanese tell the Americans in part:

Even though you are our enemy we appreciate the good treatment you are giving Japanese soldiers…However, we cannot condone your wanton lies about Japan violating international law and treating American prisoners atrociously like barbarians…American prisoners in our hands are receiving good treatment and living a peaceful and happy life…

Our history is ten times older than yours. While your ancestors were roaming around as savages, Japan was already civilized. We are civilized much more than you Americans.

THE GREAT JAPANESE ARMY

The true purpose of this propaganda leaflet is to make the Japanese soldier think that his government has acknowledged the good treatment of Japanese prisoners of war and this make it easier for the solider to make the decision to surrender.

I think that this propaganda is interesting because it shows how Hitler used propaganda to get people to hate Jews

WW2 Propaganda Cartoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV65XRN1lU0