American Propaganda In Laura Hillenbrand's 'Unbroken'

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Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, is the biography focused around Louis Zamperini an Olympic athlete, soldier and most notably a POW survivor. During his time as a POW he was abused, tortured, malnourished, and used as propaganda in the fight against the allies during WWII. Propaganda was a huge influence in the war it was motivation to the people to stand up and fight and increase productivity throughout the country, it provided stimulus vital to keeping the war alive and in check. Propaganda during WWII was very prominent and a major influence in the motivation and rallying of the people. Without propaganda the war would’ve never turned out the way it was and the number of troops and the efficiency of factories would not have every reached maximum potential. American Propaganda such as poster depicting the average man being shown as a war hero and the famous Uncle Sam saying I want you to join the U.S. army are prime examples of American propaganda used during WWII. War …show more content…

Some Japanese propaganda depicted the unity of Japan, China, Korea, and surrounding Asian countries. The Japanese also used POW’s as tools of propaganda speaking of how well the POW’s were being treated and they were all healthy showing that Japan was compassionate and not as brutal as the Germans. This helped convince the Japanese people to join the imperial army and fight for a cause seeing that things were not a brutal as depicted. Louis was offered to speak on Tokyo radio and correct America on that statement that he was dead. As stated on page 253 “As long as Louie didn’t read propaganda there was no harm in accepting.” Louis then went on to speak on the radio and correct the statement given by the U.S. and no propaganda was used and he was then offered to speak

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