The United States was about six months into World War II when it founded the Office of War Information (OWI). Its mission: to disseminate political propaganda. The office spread its messages through ...

On June 4, 1989, the Polish Communist Party held partially free elections, setting in motion a series of events that ultimately removed the Communists from power. Not long afterward, street protests ...

After a forgotten WW2 propaganda poster was discovered in 2000, it found an astounding new resonance in 21st-Century Britain – becoming an endlessly memeable template that is both cherished and mocked ...

Germans first heard details of the allied landing on D-Day on June 6 th, 1944 at 4.50 AM on the armed forces radio station Soldatensender Calais. “The enemy is landing with force from the air and from ...

This United States pilot stationed in Karachi, India, deserted several weeks before his 23rd birthday. Playing a bit of bluff, he ended up in German-held territory in Europe, joined the ss propaganda ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A traveling exhibition about propaganda will be on display at the National World War II Museum, starting this month. “State of Deception : The Power of Nazi Propaganda” comes from ...

"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 ...

Though some wartime propaganda art has since become iconic, plenty of posters from the World War II era are rare, with few original examples having survived through the decades. World War II Posters, ...

This United States pilot stationed in Karachi, India, deserted several weeks before his 23rd birthday. Playing a bit of bluff ...

About half the information you’ll encounter online today will be fake. By 2022, you might encounter fake content online more often than you encounter real content. Businesses and governments are ...

Russia has cracked down on free speech and placed strict propaganda controls on what citizens see and hear about the brutal war in Ukraine. Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed ...