Abstract
The study of history was fundamental to British propagandists’ understanding of Germany and their conception of the Nazi mind. Despite strongly contested political differences within the department, history often offered the common ground necessary to build axioms for morale subversion. This chapter reveals three distinct periods in the department’s historical imagination that were conditioned in part by changes to the department’s political culture, and which had a significant impact on the genealogy of Britain’s Germany. In considering PWE’s historical imagination, this chapter will also offer a sustained critique of propagandists’ arguments for the relationship between fascism and the German character.
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