"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in ...

Daily Express foreign correspondent Sefton Delmer (1904 - 1979), making a propaganda broadcast to Germany from the BBC, 1st November 1941. Delmer had been recruited in 1940 by the Special Operations ...

The German government on Wednesday warned against Russian efforts to “instrumentalize” events marking the 80th anniversary of World War II after the Russian ambassador to Berlin attended a local event ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The last surviving member of the White Rose, an underground anti-Nazi resistance group during World War II, has been ...

World War II propaganda wasn’t just posters and speeches—it was a carefully crafted tool to influence thought, inspire action, and define national identity. From democratic persuasion in the U.S. to ...

It is nothing new that the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) and its member unions support the government’s pro-war policies. Their leading functionaries have already repeatedly taken part in ...

The unfolding story of the Russian Internet Research Agency’s campaign to disrupt the 2016 U.S. elections calls to mind a previous episode when a hostile foreign power weaponized a new and powerful ...

During World War I Delmer was bullied in his German school for being British, an enemy school child. But he also found himself enjoying German war propaganda, singing and marching along to patriotic ...