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WW1 A to Z - Y is for Your Country Needs You

A selection of British newspaper headlines from World War One suggest the impact propaganda had on the Home Front. Attitudes towards foreigners and particularly Germans became more hostile. In a dramatic monologue, Friedrich Muller, a German man settled in Britain, describes his experience of the growing intolerance. The iconic image of General Kitchener and his message ‘Your Country Needs You’ made Friedrich feel isolated and excluded. His friends and neighbours turned against him, his shop was vandalised and Friedrich ends up in an internment camp on the Isle of Man.

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