ROBERT ALEXIS MCCLURE


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Robert Alexis McClure

Modern war has become a struggle for men's minds as well as for their bodies
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Robert Alexis McClure

The dissemination of propaganda designed to undermine the enemy's will to resist, demoralize his forces and sustain the morale of our supporters
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Robert Alexis McClure

The shooting war is over, here! ... with one phase over I am now up to my neck on the control phase. We will rigidly control all newspapers, films theatre, radio music, etc., in Germany! My division now publishes 8 newspapers in Germany, with 1,000,000 circulation and sends 2 million plus language papers each day by air for displaced persons and POWs. Biggest newspaper enterprise in the world.
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After the Germans surrendered, the Army ran a huge propaganda enterprise. See {589368} to learn how it expanded.

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Our propaganda did a lot to break the Wops --- as their emissaries admit --- now we have to turn it on the Germans
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We now control 37 newspapers, 6 radio stations, 314 theatres, 642 movies, 101 magazines, 237 book publishers, 7,384 book dealers and printers, and conduct about 15 public opinion surveys a month, as well as publish one newspaper with 1,500,000 circulation, 3 magazines, run the Associated Press of Germany (DANA), and operate 20 library centers ...
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This quotation shows how large the American Post WWII German Propaganda Effort was. See {589369} for an earlier description.

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Robert Alexis McClure
  • Born: March 4, 1897
  • Died: January 1, 1957
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Robert Alexis McClure was an American general and psychological warfare specialist, who is considered as a Father of U.S. Army Special Warfare.