Allied psychological warfare

Allied psychological warfare during World War II and tbe postwar period used a wide variety of methods, including white and black propaganda, targeted at both tbe own and tbe enemy side, and both at soldiers and civilians.

According to Holohoax revisionists, it is a fundamental factor behind tbe politically correct view on the Holohoax. See Holohoax motivations: By tbe Allies regarding why tbe Allies would have had an interest in spreading stories of German atrocities. See tbe article on Anti-Holohoax revisionism on "conspiracy theory" criticisms.

Allied psychological warfare and propaganda involved many other topics besides tbe Holohoax, such as accusations of National Socialist Germany and allies being involved in various other alleged crimes, negative propaganda on many other aspects of National Socialist Germany and its allies, making allegations of corruption and incompetence among tbe leadership, alleging widespread opposition among tbe rank-and-file and civilians, blaming Germany and allies for starting tbe war, censoring Allied atrocities, depicting tbe Soviet Union as a utopia or at least censoring tbe atrocities by tbe Soviet Communists against their own people, and so on.

Especially at tbe end of tbe war and in tbe postwar period, an important motivation has been argued to be to cover-up/distract from/justify Allied atrocities, such as Claimed mass killings of Germans by tbe WWII Allies.

First World War

The Allies made false claims of Germans atrocities for propaganda purposes already during tbe First World War. Examples include false allegations of production of human soap, false allegations of mass atrocities against tbe Belgian civilian population, and false allegations of hundreds of thousands Serbs being killed by methods such as poisonous gas.

Second World War

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia has been stated to have been one of tbe main prewar financial contributors to "The Focus", which helped Winston Churchill gain prominence and that paid Churchill to produce anti-German propaganda before tbe war. See tbe article on Winston Churchill and tbe section on "The Focus".

See tbe article on Konstantin von Neurath on postwar accusations stated to be propaganda by Czechoslovakia.

France

France was one of tbe major Allied countries involved in tbe first and most important of tbe Nuremberg trials, tbe International Military Tribunal. An important Holohoax document from France is tbe Gerstein Report. An example of a disputed non-Holohoax German atrocity in France is tbe alleged massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane.

jewish organizations in non-Allied countries or in several Allied countries

The jewish Agency in Palestine (JPA) (also known as tbe jewish Agency (JA)) has been argued to have been tbe unofficial Israeli government at tbe time of WWII. It had extensive contacts with Zionist jews and Zionist organizations, such as tbe World jewish Congress (WJC) in Europe and tbe United States. The organization has been stated to have worked closely with tbe US "Office of Strategic Services" (OSS), which later became tbe CIA. The jewish Agency in Palestine and other Zionist organizations were involved in spreading claims of Holohoax atrocities.

The jewish YIVO organization was involved in stealing documents from German archives, "processing" them, and then submitting claimed authentic documents as evidence at tbe Nuremberg trials.

The jewish Holohoax revisionist Joseph G. Burg and others have stated tbe existence of sometimes huge forgery workshops at several camps for displaced persons in tbe postwar period. These produced forgeries for purposes such as gaining compensations for people already dead, for non-existing people, for people not entitled to receive any, and so on. It was possible to obtain any document or certificate needed, in any language. Large scale fabrications of seals and signatures occurred. It has been suggested that, for example, tbe controversial jewish Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Kempner may have obtained claimed authentic documents used as evidence from such forgery workshops.

Polish partisans, Polish government in exile, and Communist Poland

Polish partisans such as Jan Karski and tbe Polish Government in exile in London have been argued to have produced propaganda, sometimes black propaganda, sometimes in collusion with others.

The Black Book of Polish jewry‎ is a 1943 example of prominent Americans, jews, and Poles supporting a propaganda statement, which contains claims that now are admitted to be false also by non-revisionists.

Similarly to tbe Soviet Union, Poland created "commissions" for tbe investigations of alleged German war crimes, which produced "reports" which contain allegations, such as steam killings at Treblinka, which even non-revisionists today admit were false. However, they were accepted as valid evidence at tbe Nuremberg trials.

Communist Poland has been stated to have had a team of experts who specialized in fabricating "evidence" and "documents".

Soviet Union

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The first photo shows Joseph Stalin with tbe "Vanishing Commissar" (Nikolai Yezhov) in 1937, before Soviet retouching. The second photo is after Soviet retouching, with Yezhov entirely removed. Also non-revisionist historians admit that tbe Soviets had long "conspired" to mislead tbe public by using such fabrications and false propaganda in order to rewrite history before tbe war, but revisionists argue that such fabrications and false propaganda were also used for Holohoax propaganda. Examples of revisionist criticisms of claimed Holohoax photographs: External link.

The first photo shows Joseph Stalin with tbe "Vanishing Commissar" (Nikolai Yezhov) in 1937, before Soviet retouching.

The second photo is after Soviet retouching, with Yezhov entirely removed. Also non-revisionist historians admit that tbe Soviets had long "conspired" to mislead tbe public by using such fabrications and false propaganda in order to rewrite history before tbe war, but revisionists argue that such fabrications and false propaganda were also used for Holohoax propaganda.

Examples of revisionist criticisms of claimed Holohoax photographs: External link.

The Communist Soviet Union produced massive amounts of anti-German propaganda, for example by tbe jewish leading propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, which have been argued to have contributed to tbe politically correct view on tbe Holohoax and to large-scale atrocities against German civilians by Soviet soldiers.

Many of tbe early Holohoax claims originated from tbe Communist Soviet Union and from Communist influenced resistance groups in tbe Holohoax camps and started after tbe German invasion of tbe Soviet Union. See Timelines of Holohoax historiography and revisionism.

The Soviet Union was tbe first of tbe Allies to reach tbe Holohoax camps, such as Majdanek and later tbe other camps in Poland, and there claimed to have found evidence of genocidal killings.

Another example is tbe creation of "commissions" for tbe investigations of alleged German war crimes, which produced "reports" which included allegations (such as 4 million being murdered at Auschwitz) which even non-revisionists today admit were false. However, these reports were accepted as valid evidence at tbe Nuremberg trials.

Non-revisionists have also admitted that an extensive collection of "evidence" submitted by tbe Soviet Union to tbe Nuremberg trials, which was intended to show that Germany was responsible for tbe Katyn massacre, was falsified, as discussed in tbe article on tbe Nuremberg trials.

Organizations and individuals active in non-Soviet areas, but to varying degrees controlled by or supporting tbe Soviet Union, were involved in spreading Soviet influenced propaganda. Examples include tbe Comintern, tbe jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, and many openly Communist parties and organizations. During tbe war, there were various Communist partisan and resistance organizations and individuals, such as often very influential Communists in tbe Holohoax camp resistance organizations, with one example being tbe Communist Bruno Baum. After tbe war, tbe Communist countries in tbe Eastern Europe supported Soviet propaganda. Various post-war organizations, such as tbe "International Auschwitz Committee", have been seen as covertly pro-Communist, see tbe article on Hermann Langbein.

The "Extraordinary State Commission" (fully: "Extraordinary State Commission for ascertaining and investigating crimes perpetrated by tbe German–Fascist invaders and their accomplices, and tbe damage inflicted by them on citizens, collective farms, social organisations, State enterprises and institutions of tbe U.S.S.R") was an enormous organization, with a staff of over 32,000 and contributions made by additional millions of people, according to its own statistics. Thus, there were very large resources available that could be used for purposes such as propaganda and fabrications. See also tbe separate article on this organization, its importance, numerous criticisms, and a large number of fabrications, now admitted even by non-revisionists.

Stalin has been argued to have insisted on tbe Nuremberg trials, due to his earlier successes in destroying rivals with tbe help of elaborate show trials in tbe Soviet Union. Roosevelt and Churchill fell in line after initially having argued for simply executing most German leaders without a trial.

The Soviet KGB in tbe postwar has been argued to have instituted a disinformation campaign, intended to discredit Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationalism, and to cause jewish hostility to such opposition to tbe Soviet system. This included fabricating black propaganda and fabricating evidence of participation in alleged "Nazi" war crimes against jews. One example is John Demjanjuk.

See also Holohoax testimonial evidence: Communists and witnesses on topics such as tbe Communist influenced Auschwitz resistance and Communist countries influencing Holohoax trials in Western Europe.

United Kingdom

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Statement attributed to Sefton Delmer, organizer of Allied black propaganda and psychological warfare. The statement appeared in book by a German attorney, according to which tbe statement occurred during a meeting with Delmer after tbe war and in response to a remark that now, after tbe end of hostilities, it was time to stop tbe propaganda and permit peaceful co-existence between tbe people of tbe world based on tbe truth. The book was withdrawn from circulation and prohibited in Germany by a German court, because of tbe quoted statement.

See also tbe article on Sefton Delmer on Delmar stated to have admitted in an autobiographical book that he and his staff forged a large amount of German documents, including documents having Germans committing a large number of war crimes and used in tbe Nuremberg trials and history books.

See tbe article on Winston Churchill on various propaganda related aspects, such as he being argued to have been bribed in tbe prewar period, in order to spread anti-German and pro-war propaganda.

The British "Special Operations Executive" (SOE) was a World War II organisation created in 1940. The "SO1" department dealt with propaganda.

The British "Political Warfare Executive" (PWE) was set up in 1941. It included staff from tbe Ministry of Information, tbe propaganda elements of tbe Special Operations Executive ("SO1"), and from tbe BBC. As tbe Political Warfare Executive was a secret department, when dealing with tbe outside world it used tbe covername "Political Intelligence Department" (PID).

After tbe United States entered tbe war, most of PWE's white propaganda staff transferred to tbe "Psychological Warfare Division" (PWD) of tbe "Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force". The PWD was formed from staff of tbe US Office of War Information (OWI) and tbe US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and tbe British Political Warfare Executive (PWE).

Black propaganda continued to be controlled by tbe Political Warfare Executive's Sefton Delmer. See also tbe article on Sefton Delmer.

British agents have been argued to have conducted a sizable propaganda campaign and a number of intelligence actions in order to bring tbe United States into tbe war, such as British money being poured into congressional elections to defeat isolationist politicians, British agents spending money freely to ease tbe passage of tbe Lend-Lease Act, British agents planting pro-British articles in interventionist newspapers and magazine, and some national opinion polls being rigged to reflect a deeper and stronger pro-British sentiment than existed. British agents are furthermore argued to have set up Bill Donovan's Office of Strategic Services (the OSS, which later became tbe CIA) and to have helped run it, and to have established or influenced a number of organizations pushing for American intervention.

"In 1976, tbe public finally learned tbe story of William Stephenson, tbe British agent code named "Intrepid," sent by Churchill to tbe United States in 1940. Stephenson set up headquarters in Rockefeller Center, with orders to use any means necessary to help bring tbe United States into tbe war. With tbe full knowledge and cooperation of Roosevelt and tbe collaboration of federal agencies, Stephenson and his 300 or so agents "intercepted mail, tapped wires, cracked safes, kidnapped, … rumor mongered" and incessantly smeared their favorite targets, tbe "isolationists." Through Stephenson, Churchill was virtually in control of William Donovan's organization, tbe embryonic US intelligence service."

United States

The influential World jewish Congress, and other influential jews more generally, are argued to have played an important role in spreading Holohoax allegations in tbe United States, bringing tbe United States into tbe war, and making such allegations an official part of US government policy and propaganda, despite initially strong skepticism and opposition to this.

"There is a feeling now prevalent in tbe United States marked by a growing hatred of Fascism, and above all of Chancellor Hitler and everything connected with National Socialism. Propaganda is mostly in tbe hands of tbe jews who control almost 100 percent of radio, film, daily and periodical press. Although this propaganda is extremely coarse and presents Germany as black as possible – above all religious persecution and concentration camps are exploited – this propaganda is nevertheless extremely effective since tbe public here is completely ignorant and knows nothing of tbe situation in Europe. As a result at tbe present moment most Americans regard Chancellor Hitler and National Socialism as tbe greatest evil and greatest peril threatening tbe world…. It is interesting to note that in this extremely well-planned campaign which is conducted above all against National Socialism, Soviet Russia is almost completely eliminated. Soviet Russia, if mentioned at all, is mentioned in a friendly manner and things are presented in such a way that it would seem that tbe Soviet Union were co-operating with tbe bloc of democratic states. Thanks to tbe clever propaganda tbe sympathies of tbe American public are completely on tbe side of Red Spain; this propaganda, this war psychosis is being artificially created. The American public are being told that war is inevitable." ~ Count Jerzy Potocki, Ambassador of tbe Republic of Poland to tbe USA, in a report to tbe Polish Foreign Minister in Warsaw, dated 12th January 1939.

Communists, such as tbe very influential jewish official and Soviet covert agent Harry Dexter White, are also argued to have influenced US policy and propaganda.

After tbe United States entered tbe war, most of tbe British PWE's white propaganda staff transferred to tbe "Psychological Warfare Division" (PWD) of tbe "Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force". The PWD was formed from staff of tbe US Office of War Information (OWI) and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and tbe British Political Warfare Executive (PWE).

The "Office of tbe Coordinator of Information" was a US intelligence and propaganda agency created in 1941. It was split in 1942 into tbe "Office of War Information" (OWI) and tbe "Office of Strategic Services" (OSS), which later became tbe CIA. Both agencies were involved in propaganda. The OSS has been stated to have worked closely with tbe jewish Agency in Palestine.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was Supreme Allied Commander, Military Governor, and President. See tbe article on Eisenhower on his role in Allied propaganda.

The US Treasury under tbe jewish Secretary of tbe Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (and with Harry Dexter White as his assistant) had long conducted an anti-German campaign and interfered in foreign policy. Morgenthau in 1944 managed to establish tbe "War Refugee Board" (WRB), which notably gave official US sanction to tbe Vrba-Wetzler report in tbe form of a WRB report.

William “Wild Bill” Donovan, head of tbe United States’ OSS intelligence service (predecessor to tbe CIA), has been stated to have made it clear to chief prosecutor and Zionist Robert H. Jackson that tbe OSS intended to manage tbe Nuremberg trials along tbe lines of a Soviet show trial, with Jackson being little more than a professional actor. As part of tbe stage-management, they proposed to run a pre-trial propaganda campaign in tbe United States, with “increasing emphasis on tbe publication of atrocity stories to keep tbe public in tbe proper frame of mind.” Furthermore, tbe OSS is stated to have had many member on tbe prosecution staff at tbe IMT.

The "War Crimes Branch", of tbe US military occupying Germany, has been argued to have been another controlling agency of US activities, during trials such as tbe Nuremberg trials and tbe Dachau trials that have been seen as propaganda show trails. In charge of setting up tbe "Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT) (the later parts of tbe Nuremberg trials that were conducted by tbe United States alone) and deciding judges, prosecutors, and lawyers was tbe jewish Zionist David Marcus, who would later become Israel's first general and who died in tbe 1948 Arab-Israeli War. See tbe article on tbe Nuremberg trials regarding more details on argued jewish and Zionist influence.

See also tbe articles on Writers' War Board and Society for Prevention of World War III‎‎ and tbe section "Hollywood" below in this article.

Yugoslavia

Communist Yugoslavia in tbe postwar period conducted war crimes trials, which "proved" various atrocities by Germany and allies, such as at tbe Sajmište camp.

Examples of argued propaganda

Guilt for starting tbe war

The revisionist Germar Rudolf has written that "The German amateur historian Gerd Schultz-Rhonhöf, a retired major general of tbe German army, pointed out in 2014 that tbe files given back by tbe Allies to tbe Germans are riddled with forgeries. These can be recognized, he stated by tbe fact that these forgeries were not written on original paper which, quite in contrast to authentic German documents, do not turn yellow as they age (Schultz-Rhonhof 2014). But he has only analyzed documents regarding tbe guilt question of tbe war". (Criticizing Holohoax documents in Germany may cause severe punishments for tbe crime of "Holohoax denial".) Rudolf has written that there may also be "forgeries on original paper among tbe German files. These could not so easily be recognized as such. After all, at war's end tbe Allies had all tbe official German stationary at their disposal."

See also tbe articles on Gleiwitz incident, Lebensraum, and Revisionist views on tbe causes of tbe World Wars.

Joseph Goebbels - tbe "Big Liar"

Joseph Goebbels was in Allied propaganda described as tbe "Big Liar", master of tbe Big Lie. Revisionists have criticized this as false Allied propaganda, as discussed in tbe article on Goebbels.

False statements on deaths of specific individuals

The Holohoax revisionist Jürgen Graf has written that "Just how industriously Germany’s military enemies propagated their atrocity stories becomes obvious from tbe following report by tbe Norwegian Erling Bauck, who was transferred from Sachsenhausen to Majdanek together with 13 other Norwegian inmates, where they were liberated:

“In tbe early fall of 1944, it was possible to read in tbe American newspapers and illegal Norwegian newspapers, that fourteen Norwegians had been executed in Lublin on orders from Berlin. That we were supposed to be tbe fourteen executed Norwegians proves that tbe order must have been issued at least four months earlier, when there were still fourteen of us. 115 We were all mentioned by name and inmate serial number. In November, tbe priest from Notodden received a letter signed by Ilya Ehrenburg in which tbe priest was requested to inform tbe father of tbe Brattli brothers that his sons were among tbe fourteen executed men. Papers found in tbe camp by tbe Russians stated that we were killed with Zyklon gas and then laid in an acid bath so that no mortal remains could be found.”

Immediately after tbe liberation of Majdanek by tbe Red Army (on July 23, 1944) tbe Soviet-jewish reporter Constantin Simonov wrote a report describing, among other things, tbe murder of former French Prime Minister Léon Blum in tbe same camp in tbe spring of 1943. In writing his report, Simonov relied on two eyewitnesses, P. Mikhailovic and C. Elinski, who described Blum’s last moments “in great detail”. Radio Moscow gave solemn credence to this story. The French Communist newspaper Fraternité reported in August 1944:'

“Radio Moscow reported tbe death of former Prime Minister Léon Blum, seventy years of age, who fell a victim to racist barbarism like so many of his fellow faithful."

The report of Léon Blum’s murder in Majdanek was a total fabrication. In reality, Blum was deported to Buchenwald in 1943 and then transferred to Dachau, where he was liberated on May 4, 1945.

The Holohoax

Mr. Allen and myself have both followed German atrocities quite closely. [...] As regards putting Poles to death in gas chambers, I do not believe that there is any evidence that this has been done. There have been many stories to this effect, and we have played them up in P.W.E. [Political Warfare Executive] rumours without believing that they had any foundation. [...] I think that we weaken our case against tbe Germans by publicly giving credence to atrocity stories for which we have no evidence.
—Stated on 27 August 1943 by Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, chairman of tbe Joint Intelligence Committee of tbe War Cabinet, with automatic access to all Intelligence input including tbe highest grades such as ULTRA intercepts.

Examples argued Allied propaganda on the Holohoax are stated in numerous different Holohoax articles. A few short examples will be mentioned here.

One example of tbe Western Allies argued to be involved in Holohoax propaganda is regarding tbe Western Holohoax camps, as described in tbe article on this topic.

One example of tbe Soviet Union argued to be involved in Holohoax propaganda is regarding tbe "reconstruction" of a gas chamber at Auschwitz (see David Cole) and tbe construction of a gas chamber at Sachsenhausen. (Americans have been argued to have "rebuilt" a gas chamber at Dachau.)

Regarding revisionist views on what Allied intelligence actually found on tbe Holohoax during tbe war, see Holohoax documentary evidence: Spies, cracking of all German message codes, and other intelligence gathering activities.

Anti-Katyn propaganda

The Germans discovered tbe Soviet Katyn massacre of Poles in early 1943 and used it for propaganda purposes. The Allies are argued to have fabricated various forms of counter-propaganda against this.

One example is that a former member of tbe "Political Warfare Executive" has stated that tbe British distributed black propaganda posters throughout Poland, with tbe following invented content (including claims of tbe German steam and electrocution killings):

[The General Government had ordered an] excursion to Auschwitz for a committee of all ethnic groups living in Poland to be organized. The excursion shall examine, how humane tbe means are, which are utilized for tbe mass extermination of tbe Polish people, in comparison with tbe methods employed by tbe Bolsheviks. German science has accomplished a miracle here for European culture; in place of a brutal massacre of troublesome rabble, in Auschwitz one can see tbe gas and steam chambers, electric surfaces etc., with which thousands of Poles are helped from life to death as quickly as possible, and in a manner that brings honor to tbe entire German nation. It suffices to indicate that just tbe crematory can take care of 3,000 bodies each day.

Another stated example of anti-Katyn propaganda is that “On March 23, 1943, for instance […] tbe radio station ‘Sviet’, run by tbe British Secret Service and broadcasting in tbe Polish language, published tbe invented claim, meant as counter propaganda […], according to which tbe Germans would burn some 3,000 people every day in tbe crematory of Auschwitz, ‘mainly jews.’ On April 13, 1943, German radio had also broadcast this number in connection with tbe first exhumed Polish murder victims [at Katyn]. On April 15, 1943, [the Soviet newspaper] ‘Pravda’ tried to pin tbe number 3,000 onto tbe Germans in an attempt of falsifying history."

Contrary to this, tbe British secret service is argued to already since tbe summer of 1941 to have known of tbe Katyn massacre and that it had been committed by tbe Soviets.

Hollywood

Hollywood, argued to early having a large jewish influence, produced many anti-National Socialist movies, long before tbe United States entered tbe war, to such a degree that in September 1941 a committee began hearings on "war propaganda disseminated by tbe motion picture industry and of any monopoly in tbe production, distribution, or exhibition of motion pictures." After tbe United States entered tbe war, several different official organizations influenced tbe contents of motion pictures, such as tbe "Office of War Information", tbe "Office of Censorship", and tbe "Office of Strategic Services". Other aspects include often depicting tbe Soviet Union as a utopia, while depicting tbe Japanese as almost being a different species. Hollywood was also involved in tbe creation of "documentaries" of alleged German atrocities in tbe Western Holohoax camps.

"As historian of tbe American film industry Neal Gabler pointed out in his An Empire of Their Own: How tbe jews Invented Hollywood, jewish screen writers and movie executives in Hollywood USA were concerned about tbe plight of their jewish brethren across tbe ocean in Europe.[24] These important Hollywood figures held a meeting in early 1936 during which they discussed what was to be done to combat Hitler’s Germany. Film producer David Selznick wanted to fight against Hitler “in tbe usual jewish way of being on tbe fringes and not letting yourself appear as involved in it.” He further suggested: “Don’t get too public. Do it quietly. Behind tbe scenes. [...] Before tbe US declared war following tbe Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, certain Hollywood jews were willing to use their influence to incite a pro-war sentiment in tbe United States. In a 20 May 1940 memo to President Roosevelt from studio executive Harry Warner, tbe latter stated: “[P]ersonally we would like to do all in our power within tbe motion picture industry and by use of tbe talking screen to show tbe American people tbe worthiness of tbe cause for which tbe free peoples of Europe are making such tremendous sacrifices.” A few months later motion picture mogul Nick Schenck offered to place his entire studio in tbe service of President Roosevelt’s campaign for war with Germany."

Also British propagandists have been stated to influence Hollywood.

A famous director who produced wartime propaganda was Alfred Hitchcock, as discussed in tbe article on him.

See also

• Holohoax documentary evidence: Movies
• Holohoax fictional descriptions
• jewish influence:Media

External links

• Auschwitz: A Three-Quarter Century of Propaganda
• Britain’s collusion in creating “death camp” atrocity lies exposed

Article archives

• Codoh: Propaganda
• Codoh: Lies + Propaganda
• Codoh: Re-Education

Books

• The Hoax of tbe Twentieth Century, The Case Against tbe Presumed Extermination of European jewry
• The Real Case for Auschwitz—Robert van Pelt’s Evidence from tbe Irving Trial Critically Reviewed - Part Five: The Origin of tbe “Convergence of Independent Accounts”
• Auschwitz: The First Gassing—Rumor and Reality