Title: The propaganda war in the Rhineland : Weimar Germany, race and occupation after World War I /
Authors: Collar, Peter
Year: 2013
Subjects: Propaganda, German History; Black people Germany.; Black people Germany History; Racism Germany History; Germany History; Germany Politics and government
Abstract: Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops. This occupation, perceived as a humiliation by the political right, caused anger and dismay in Germany and an aggressive propaganda war broke out - heightened by an explosion of vicious racist propaganda against the use of non-European colonial troops by France in the border area.
Contents: The Pfalz: focus of French ambitions in the Weimar crisis years -- The Bavarian Pfalzzentrale and the Rheinische Volkspflege: a discordant evolution -- The origins of the Schwarze Schmach campaign -- Women in Rhineland propaganda: exploiters or the exploited? -- Publicly funded propaganda and private initiatives: contrasting styles and motivation -- The Pfalzzentrale: metamorphosis and dissolution -- Pfalzzentrale propaganda: anti-France, but pro-Bavaria or pro-Reich? -- German Rhineland propaganda: the product of a fractured society.