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Field postcard bearing company stamp and handwritten notice “censored”, June 1915

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  • Story

    "Opinion making": censorship as an instrument of war

    During the First World War, the Habsburg Monarchy, like the other nations at war, also attempted to create an as uniform ‘opinion front’ as possible, one that was in line with the government's own political and military objectives. In order to achieve this, the military leadership made use of both propaganda and a comprehensive censorship system aimed in particular at suppressing undesirable information and opinions.

    Translation: David Wright

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    Monitoring of the post – letter censorship

    The censorship of letters covered all correspondence sent to and from abroad, (random samples of) domestic correspondence, and initially the entire field post and all letters from prisoners of war.