The First World War saw the major countries using the newest technologies to develop propaganda for home audiences. Each used carefully edited newsreels to combine straight news reports and propaganda.Wolfgang Miihl-Benninghaus, "Newsreel Images of the Military and War, 1914-1918" in A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades ed. by Thomas Elsaesser, (1996) online. During the Second World War, the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, a state organization in Nazi Germany for disseminating stories favorable to the administration's goals, created Die Deutsche Wochenschau (1940–1945). There were no other newsreels disseminated within the country during the war.
the first world war saw the major countries using the newest technologies to develop propaganda for home audiences each used carefully edited newsreels to combine straight news reports and propagandawolfgang miihl-benninghaus "newsreel images of the military and war 1914-1918" in a second life german cinema's first decades ed by thomas elsaesser (1996) online during the second world war the reich ministry of public enlightenment and propaganda a state organization in nazi germany for disseminating stories favorable to the administration's goals created die deutsche wochenschau (1940–1945) there were no other newsreels disseminated within the country during the war