Welcome! I’m Dr. Stephanie Seul and I write about the international history of media and communication in the era of the two World Wars. I have published on topics such as British propaganda during the 1930s and the Second World War, the representation of Weimar antisemitism and the Holocaust in the contemporary international press and radio, the International… Continue reading Home
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Women War Reporters of the First World War The German-Jewish Press and the First World War The International Press and German Antisemitism during the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 The PRESSA, International Press Exhibition in Cologne 1928 British propaganda directed at Nazi Germany, 1938-1945
British propaganda directed at Nazi Germany, 1938-1945
During the Second World War, the BBC’s German-language broadcasts and British leaflets dropped by the Royal Air Force were an important alternative source of information for many Germans. Germany’s media had been strictly censored and manipulated since 1933. Listening to foreign radio stations was illegal and penalties ranged from fines and confiscation of radio sets… Continue reading British propaganda directed at Nazi Germany, 1938-1945
The International Press and German Antisemitism during the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
In April 1933, Hitler shocked world opinion with a nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses and the removal of all Jews from the civil service and the professions. However, the Nazi attack on the Jews did not come out of the blue. Anti-Jewish propaganda, discrimination and violence were an integral feature of everyday life during the… Continue reading The International Press and German Antisemitism during the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933