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The Germans paid close attention to how Japan won not only on the battlefield but also in the arena of public opinion, having smoothly fused censorship and propaganda into their objectives. Germany did not fight in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. After the German censorship law of 1874, newspapers had a I Sitzredakteur i (sitting editor), a straw man who was legally responsible and would go to prison ( I sitzen i , to sit, means being in prison) when a paper violated censorship laws. For nearly 30 years, I have contemplated why wartime press-military relations have varied from war to war and country to country, starting with my first academic book, I Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II i . [Extracted from the article] |
