Transcript francesca derla, liceo enriques Recruitment posters  Aiming at encouraging people to volunteer  Initially successful  In use for all the duration of the.

francesca derla, liceo enriques
Recruitment posters
 Aiming at encouraging
people to volunteer
 Initially successful
 In use for all the
duration of the war
Recruitment posters
 Professional army
BUT
 Conscription introduced in 1916
Recruitment posters
 Posters encouraged people to
enlist , justified involvement,
urged responsible action
Good reasons for enlisting
 Stress on pride
in serving and
a sense of
moral duty
….a pointing finger
Why fight for your
homeland?
 Stress on
 the beauty of the
motherland
 What they would
lose were England
to be defeated
Women and the War
 Serving would
make a soldier
more
attractive to
women
Women and the War
 Women were also
urged to take up
responsibility
 Doing men’s jobs
in factories and
heavy industry
The stigma of cowardice
Where were you
during the war?
 Staying at home would
result in feelings of guilt
and shame
The enemy in the
propaganda
 Stress on
the brutality
and the
cruelty of
the enemy