ABSTRACT

Soon after the war, aerial propaganda aimed at the occupied territories vanished not only from collective memory but also from the historiography of the occupation. During the last hundred years, only a handful of studies have hinted at the importance of aerial propaganda and no historian has made it the core of an investigation. Throughout this book, it has become apparent that this historiographical gap is in no way justified and is even detrimental to the understanding of topics such as wartime institutions, propaganda distribution, international laws of war, propaganda during the Second World War and of course the phenomenon of occupation in France throughout the First World War.