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The German Corpse Factory - A Study in First World War Propaganda (Hardcover)
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The German Corpse Factory - A Study in First World War Propaganda (Hardcover)
Series: Wolverhampton Military Series
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The German Corpse Factory is one of the most famous and scandalous
propaganda stories of the First World War. It has been repeated
many times down to the present day as the prime example of the
falsehood of British wartime propaganda. But despite all the
attention paid to it, the full story has never been properly told.
In Spring 1917, parts of the British press claimed that Germany was
so short of essential fats and glycerine that the German Army was
being forced to boil down the bodies of its own dead soldiers,
causing a brief scandal of accusation and counter-accusation,
including the claim that the story was the invention of the British
official propaganda organisations. Behind the scenes, British
propaganda experts opposed exploiting the story as it was obviously
false, and contrary to their basic principles of never telling an
obvious lie in an official statement. But at the time, the British
government refused to deny that the 'German Corpse Factory' might
really exist. In 1925 the scandal re-erupted in New York, when the
former head of British military intelligence on the Western Front,
in the United States on a speaking tour, was quoted in newspapers
as having confessed to making the whole German Corpse Factory story
up, a claim that he immediately denied. As a gesture of friendship
on the occasion of the Locarno treaties, the British government now
accepted the German government position that the story was a lie,
but in fact neither government knew what had really happened in
1917. This book provides the answers to these questions according
to the best historical evidence available. It uses the scandal of
the 'German Corpse Factory' as a case-study to explore the true
nature of British official propaganda and its organisations in the
First World War, including the events of 1917 and who might really
have been responsible for the story. It also shows how this brief
episode was taken up by the German government after 1918, and by
interest groups in Britain and the United States after 1925, to
paint a false picture of British propaganda, with far-reaching
consequences for the peace of Europe, and for our subsequent
understanding of the First World War.
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