Corpse Factories and Crucified Soldiers
This rumor originating from the UK spread in fear of what may happen to British soldiers on the frontline.
What are Corpse factories?
They delayed the Shlieffen Plan at Mons.
Who is the British Expeditionary Force?
A covert form of psychological warfare.
What is Black Propaganda?
how governments spread rumors about the other side
What is propaganda
Rumors of an atrocity originated from a scout mistaking A German campfire for this.
What is the crucified soldier?
This myth developed from the book "The Bowman"
What is the Angel of Mons
This type of paper was commonly used to spread black propaganda.
What are Leaflets?
the Bryre Report from Belgium accused this country of committing atrocities in belgium
What is Germany?
Corpse factories were used as a literary weapon against Germany. These rumors spread because of this.
What is the creation of fear towards Germany.
The most common hallucination of ghosts on the frontline reported by soldiers.
What is Angel of Mons
Black propaganda had this effect on soldiers.
What is demoralization?
This practice was common for both sides to do to their prisoners of war
What is murder?
The soldiers claiming to have seen their comrade crucified by the Germans were from this country.
What is Canada?
The bowman by Arthur Machen published in this year.
What is 1914
A method guaranteeing that Black propaganda's true source was never found.
What are covert sources?
The German response to the Bryre Report
What is the white book
The materials rumored to be collected in corpse factories.
What are fats and greases?
The book The Bowman which featured the BEF being rescued was published for what function of propaganda
to raise morale
Used by a country to demoralize black u.s troops by playing on the racial segregation in the u.s army at the time.
What is Germany?
The white book came out this many days after the Bryre report
what is 5 days