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29.06.2023

Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde Hollywood "zum inoffiziellen Propaganda-Arm des US-Militärs". Das United States Office of War Information (OWI) verfügte über eine Abteilung, die sich ausschliesslich mit Hollywood befasste: das Bureau of Motion Pictures. Von 1942 bis 1945 überprüfte das Bureau of Motion Pictures des OWI 1'652 Filmdrehbücher und überarbeitete oder verwarf alle, die die Vereinigten Staaten in einem negativen Licht darstellten, einschliesslich Material, das die Amerikaner "kriegsvergessen oder kriegsfeindlich" erscheinen liess. Elmer Davis, der Leiter des OWI, sagte: "Der einfachste Weg, eine Propaganda-Idee in die Köpfe der meisten Menschen einzupflanzen, ist, sie durch das Medium eines Unterhaltungsfilms laufen zu lassen, ohne dass sie merken, dass sie propagiert werden"[5].

During World War II, Hollywood "became the unofficial propaganda arm of the U.S. military". The United States Office of War Information (OWI) had a unit exclusively dedicated to Hollywood called the Bureau of Motion Pictures. From 1942 to 1945, the OWI's Bureau of Motion Pictures reviewed 1,652 film scripts and revised or discarded any that portrayed the United States in a negative light, including material that made Americans seem "oblivious to the war or anti-war." Elmer Davis, the head of the OWI, said that "The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people's minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize they're being propagandized".[5]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment_complex
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Journal Article
What to Show the World: The Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942-1945
Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black
The Journal of American History
Vol. 64, No. 1 (Jun., 1977), pp. 87-105 (19 pages)
Published By: Oxford University Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/1888275
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1888275
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How Hollywood became the unofficial propaganda arm of the U.S. military
11.05.2020

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unofficial-propaganda-arm-of-the-u-s-military-1.5560575

Second World War launched Hollywood into a propaganda war that continues to this day

[...] Hollywood had received its marching orders from the military, and during the war, he says, "people who'd been trained to sell soap, cereal and home appliances were now being enlisted by the state to sell war to the American public."

[...] Propaganda in the form of popular entertainment could help supplant panic and doubt with pride and heroism.

A different kind of 'war hero'

Though he never saw combat himself, John Wayne was a kind of Second World War hero, starring in countless films [...] That narrative continued with Hollywood's approach to later conflicts, including the Vietnam War. [...]

Hollywood apparently held lessons for politicians as well. When U.S. President Harry S. Truman tried to get increased military spending through a hostile Congress, Sen. Arthur Vandenberg advised him to "scare the hell out of them," O'Meara said.

"And Hollywood played the vital role in 'scaring the hell out of Americans.'"
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Journal Article
The Historical Roots of CIA-Hollywood Propaganda
Pearse Redmond
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Vol. 76, No. 2, Reeled into Complacency: How the CIA & the Pentagon Use Hollywood to Influence Us (MARCH, 2017), pp. 280-310 (31 pages)
Published By: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45129369
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