Re: Propaganda in London
Ana Stallings (llls4c06@CL.UH.EDU)
Tue, 18 Jun 1996 17:25:33 -0600
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On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Tom Holloway wrote:
> We had several poster campaigns during the war. The
> one that I remember most clearly was rather like the
> one described by Lotte - it was all about a horrid-
> looking insect called 'The Squanderbug' which tried to
> get people to spend money instead of saving it, or to
> buy food instead of growing it in their gardens. The
> Squanderbug had swastikas all over its body, so you
> knew it definitely wasn't British!
>
> There was also 'Dig for Victory', trying to get people
> to be self-sufficient in food - even bits of Hyde Park
> in the middle of London were dug over for potatoes and
> onions.
>
> There were lots and lots of Hitler cartoons, and (of
> course) Goering and Goebbels were obvious targets for
> cartoonists.
>
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> I have a fascinating bit of propaganda if anyone would
> like a copy. It's a tape of a German war-time Swing
> Band, Charley and his Orchestra, that used to broadcast
> to British soldiers to try and make them discontent.
> The tunes were the usual popular ones, but the words
> were changed. Two examples:
>
>
>
> "who's that man with the big cigar
> the friend of the jew and the USSR
> He's sold his empire off to Frankie (Roosevelt)
> and the girls back home are up to yankie-pankie..."
>
>
>
>
> (To the tune of 'Stormy Weather')
> "Don't know why, it's no matter how I try,
> stormy weather.....
> since those submarines are aiming better,
> just can't keep my ships together,
> they're sinking all the time......"
>
>
>
> If anyone would like a copy of this tape, please send
> me your snail address. It's an extraodinary bit of
> musical history.
>
>
> Tom (the London Schoolboy)
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