Propaganda In The Great War

Since the beginning of The Great War, the use of propaganda has become popular among nations. Nations such as Germany, France, Britain, and Russia all utilized propaganda at the start of the war. One poster in particular, which was Russian depicted the German emperor, Kaiser Wihelm II. The emperor centers the whole poster and is shown as a red figure. This red figure is shown with fury arms and legs, with hooves as his feet and and a tail, wearing a pointed helmet. His face shows a fowl snare with a large black mustache. In his hands are two skulls, and at his back are multiple kingdoms. During these times countries use propaganda to depict enemy nations as barbaric to justify war, get the people on their side, build up nationalism and divert them from their own political and social strifes. As propaganda became intensely more popular it’s uses were used in a variety of ways for all different reasons. The Russian poster described in the previous paragraph had a specific purpose. Its purpose was to show the evils of Russia’s enemy, the German empire. The Russians were not
The use of demonizing the enemy, along with the significance of the two skulls to show the cruel and unjust rule goes very well, and hand and hand with getting the public to hate the enemy. The colonization aspect depicted with the kingdoms is to me one of the strongest points made in this poster. The dispute and race to gain the most land has been the reason of countless wars throughout history of mankind. In a time of imperialism and colonization tensions were high among many counties. Germany at the time had colonized Africa, taken land from France, and extended east at the beginning of the war. The Great War had tremendous effects on the future of propaganda. It set a basis for many years to come on how propaganda would affect not only wars but many movements for the future to