Citation

Wilkin B, Williams M. War Hist. 2017; 24(1): 28-43.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0968344515602916

PMID

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Abstract

This article explores Anglophobia as a topic in German wartime propaganda aimed at military and civilian communities of France. Anti-British topics were at the centre of a large campaign of propaganda designed to undermine French morale during the two world wars. This study will investigate the goals, the content, and the effects of Anglophobia in France to determine the relation between these two campaigns of psychological warfare. It will be argued that the Nazis and the Vichy regime almost entirely replicated the original production of Anglophobic propaganda in the occupied territories of France during the First World War. This article will also show that Anglophobia almost invariably failed to convince the French population.

Language: en