Incidents were manufactured and exploited to justify German intervention.The German war machine was depicted as invincible. The technique provedeffective in dividing populations, weakening the power of the victim to resist,and causing its allies to hesitate. Plus bring back films from the fronts lines ofvarious German victories help win more and more support back home, alongwith helping to recruit young men who too wanted to be like the heroesportrayed by these films. By 1941 Nazi propaganda films were being shown in evening shows45,000 times every month in areas that are without movie theaters. Nine toten million citizens see both the latest films and the German WeeklyNewsreel. More than 30 million soldiers received relaxation andentertainment from films shown by the party. In addition the 80,000 to100,000 veterans of the war that return back to the Reich monthly are shownfilms in their camps. Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30 of 1940 33.7 million adultsand 6 million youths were reached by party film shows. The proceedingnumbers and facts prove that the task was being met, even when oneconsiders that it was not being carried out by a fully-staffed and experiencedteam. Ruffly 50% of the Ministry’s people joined the army when the warbroke out. Yet they were still able to wield this propaganda and use it toreach out to far more people then they other wise would have been able to.The French and British also attempted to fight back and gain supportfor their causes through propaganda. In 1944 the British Ministry’s FilmDivision asked Alfred Hitchcock to make two French language adventuremovies designed as war propaganda films. They were to be produced to raisethe spirits of people in Occupied France and gain support for the Frenchresistance there. So in the winter of 1944 “Aventure malgache”(whichtranslate as “Madagascan Adventure”) and Bon Voyage were made over afour week period in Occupied France. H...
