YouTube - British Army Advert - Armoured Infantry

YouTube - British Army: Be The Best

Watch the British Army recruitments adverts, what methods

are they using to recruit new soldiers?

YouTube - Royal Marine Commandos - Promo

YouTube - British Army: Be The Best

British Army Website

How does the British Army ‘advertise’ itself today?

Learning Objective: To understand how propaganda and censorship were used during the Second world War.

Learning Outcome: By the end of the lesson you will be able to and evaluate and explain propaganda techniques and explain the need for censorship during the Second World War.

Propaganda

Why do you think people at the time thought posters such as these were dull and uninspiring?

Imagine you work for an advertising firm and have been appointed to advise the Government on its propaganda posters. What advise would you give to improveThese posters?

What are the messages Of these three posters?How do they put their Message across?

Censorship – What would you censor ?

Censored Not Censored

Censorship Censorship and propaganda played important roles in the Second World War and were controlled by the Ministry of Information. The GovernmentHad emergency powers that enabled them to control information and Ensure that the press did not publish and the BBC did not broadcast Any information that may be helpful to the enemy and lower morale.

Make a copy of the table and Working in pairs you have to decide whichOf the following photographs the Ministry of Information would censor.

BBC - Archive - WWII: Dunkirk Evacuation - News | Dunkirk Evacuation

London street destroyed during Blitz

German Bomber shot down

British equipment left on theBeaches of Dunkirk

A family rescued during Blitz

Churchill visits London during Blitz

Similarities Differences

Censorship

Propaganda

Make a copy of the table. Complete it to show the differences and Similarities between censorship and propaganda during the wars

Source D – from a broadcast by the popular playwright and broadcaster J.B Priestley 5th June 1940, the day after the Dunkirk evacuation ended.

Among those paddle steamers that will never return was one I knew well, for it was the pride of our ferry service to the Isle of Wight.....And now never again will we board at Cowes. She has paddled and churched away forever. But now- look this little steamer, like all her brave and battered sisters, is immortal. She will go sailing proudly down the years in the epic of Dunkirk. And our great grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious. What can you learn from Source D about the Dunkirk evacuation? Try to make at least two inferences, supported from the source.

Lesson 3

Homework / Plenary

Propaganda and censorship were more effective during the Second World War than the First World War; Discuss