The end of denazification - The atrocity propaganda kicks in

The end of denazification

As denazification was deemed ineffective and counterproductive by the Americans, the Allied propaganda changed its methods.

Collective guilt campaign

Allied troops commonly forced German civilians at gun point to tour concentration camps and in some cases to exhume mass graves
of Nazi victims.

Diese Schandtaten: Eure Schuld! ("These atrocities: Your Fault!") One of
the posters distributed by U.S. occupation authorities in the summer of
1945 for the purpose of instilling a sense of collective guilt.[20]

In 1969 Time Magazine stated that
In 1945 there was an Allied consensus—which no longer exists—on the doctrine of collective guilt, that all Germans shared the blame not only for the war but for Nazi atrocities as well.[21][22]

The ideas of collective guilt and collective punishment originated not with the US and British people, but on higher policy levels.[23] Not until late in the war did the U.S. public assign collective responsibility to the German people.[23] The most notable policy document containing elements of collective guilt and collective punishment is JCS 1067 from early 1945.[23] Eventually horrific footage from the concentration camps would serve to harden public opinion and bring it more in line with that of policymakers.[23]

Already in 1944 prominent U.S. opinion makers had initiated a domestic propaganda campaign (which was to continue until 1948) arguing for a harsh peace for Germany, with a particular aim to end the apparent habit in the U.S. of viewing the Nazis and the German people as separate entities.[24]

Statements made by the British and U.S. governments, both before and immediately after Germany's surrender, indicate that the German nation as a whole was to be held responsible for the actions of the Nazi regime, often using the terms "collective guilt" and "collective responsibility".[25]

To that end, as the Allies began their post-war denazification efforts, the Psychological Warfare Division (PWD) of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) undertook a psychological propaganda campaign for the purpose of developing a German sense of collective responsibility.[26]The Public Relations and Information Services Control Group of the British Element of the Allied Control Commission began in 1945 to issue directives to officers in charge of producing newspapers and radio broadcasts for the German population to emphasize "the moral responsibility of all Germans for Nazi crimes."[27] Similarly, among U.S. authorities, such a sense of collective guilt was "considered a prerequisite to any long-term education of the German people."[26]

Using the German press, which was under Allied control, as well as posters and pamphlets, a program was conducted to acquaint ordinary Germans with what had taken place in the concentration camps. For example using posters with images of concentration camp victims coupled to text such as "YOU ARE GUILTY OF THIS!"[28][29] or "These atrocities: Your Guilt!!"[30] A number of films showing the concentration camps were made and screened to the German public, such as "Die Todesmühlen", released in the U.S. zone in January 1946, and "Welt im Film No. 5" in June 1945. A film that was never finished due partly to delays and the existence of the other films was "Memory of the Camps". According to Sidney Bernstein, chief of PWD, the object of the film
...was to shake and humiliate the Germans and prove to them beyond any possible challenge that these German crimes against humanity were committed and that the German people – and not just the Nazis and SS – bore responsibility.[31]

frontline -memory of the camps- watch the full program online - PBS.mp4 - YouTube

English writer James Stern recounted an example in a German town soon after the German surrender.

"[a] crowd is gathered around a series of photographs which though initially seeming to depict garbage instead reveal dead human bodies. Each photograph has a heading 'WHO IS GUILTY?'. The spectators are silent, appearing hypnotised and eventually retreat one by one. The placards are later replaced with clearer photographs and placards proclaiming 'THIS TOWN IS GUILTY! YOU ARE GUILTY!'"[32]On July 20, 1945 — the first anniversary of the failed attempt to kill Hitler — no mention whatsoever was made of the event. This was because reminding the German population of the fact that there had been active German resistance to Hitler would have undermined the Allied effort to instill a sense of collective guilt in the German populace.[33]

Immediately upon the liberation of the concentration camps many German civilians were forced to see the conditions in the camps, bury rotting corpses and exhume mass graves.[34] On threat of death or withdrawal of food, civilians were also forced to provide their belongings to former concentration camp inmates.[34]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification

Atrocity Propaganda and Political Justice - Allied Propaganda during World War II
The case of Sefton Delmer, British chief propagandist. Excerpt from Udo Walendy's book, "The Methods of Reeducation".

Eisenhower and "The Holocaust" Movie - Part 1

Eisenhower and "The Holocaust" Movie - Part 2

Collection of articles on War Propaganda and Psy-Ops - from the Winston Smith Ministry of Truth Archive

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