ABSTRACT
In the era of the Great War, propaganda activity acquired the status of a professional, institutionalized tool that helped in waging an offensive war. From that time and throughout the interbellum period, propagandists were commonly identified with enemies, and the word “propaganda” itself was associated with the corruption, deceit and lies of the opposite side of the conflict. From the very beginning of the war, Nazi propagandists had the most modern devices at their disposal to announce the Wehrmacht's victories on the Eastern Front to the world. Dictionaries usually define propaganda as “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.” German anti-Soviet propaganda did not only exploit Jewish stereotypes and myths. After Hitler's attack on Stalin, Goebbels returned to old slogans comparing Bolsheviks to “wild Asian hordes.”. The Soviet occupation of the eastern part of Poland had a totally different trajectory to the Nazi occupation of western Poland.
