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Geo Gerlach: “Pratestrasser in its Sunday best”, art postcard on the occasion of the reconquest of Lviv, 1915

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    The battle for hearts and minds.

    The First World War saw the creation for the first time of dedicated institutions of propaganda intended to generate a perception of the war that was as uniform as possible. Britain and the United States of America took a pioneering role in the development of psychological warfare. The Central Powers at first underestimated the opportunities offered by propaganda and only started to organize propaganda measures centrally as the war progressed.