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This is an 18 page paper that provides an overview of the role of information and propaganda on British morale in World War II. Psy-ops receive a great deal of in-depth analysis. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Britain was often called upon to summon up its morale in order to keep going as a society, and to lend the war effort the support it needed. This paper
explores the factors that were most influential upon British morale during World War II. The Difficulty of Assessing Morale It is widely regarded among scholars that a certain shift
in human consciousness occurred following the conclusion of World War II. After the realities of the Holocaust became apparent and widely known, it began to cast a critical light upon
the "early radicalism and devotion to change" that had characterized the generation of Westerners eager to sign up for the war in defense of their respective nations (Faye, 2011, p.
12). It was extremely difficult for any optimistic ideology to persist in the face of the cold realities and tallies of the war, and soon that optimism was "slowly overshadowed
by a more orthodox adherence to the principles of science and objectivity" (Faye, 2011, p. 12). The extent to which this psychosocial shift in consciousness can be regarded as being
related to the matter of morale is open to some debate. Various figures such as members of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in the 1950s sought
to analyze the matter, but faced the endemic difficulty of separating the question of national morale from the instrument of propaganda. The study of social issues in a psychological light
is always rife with the potential for a biased or manipulative interpretation, and with that in mind, one can understand the difficulty with which a contemporary scholar approaches the topic
of the morale experienced by members of a society living and working some sixty years ago. Throughout this paper, then, the treatment of morale in Britain during the Second World
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