Love Hate & Propaganda - Episode 5: 1944-1945: Hiding the Horrors

With the D-Day invasion in June 1944, the Allies finally establish a beachhead in France and begin to roll back the Nazi forces. In order not to dampen morale, the Allied High Command hides the true human cost of taking Normandy. Canada’s master of propaganda, John Grierson, explains why “withholding the truth“ is not the same as spreading lies - such as German propaganda minster Joseph Goebbels has done throughout the war. As the war grinds on, more and more questions are being posed about what is happening to the Jews of Europe. There are rumours of mass extermination, but so far the Nazis have kept the truth about the ultimate fate of Jewish minorities and others hidden. Finally Germany invites members of the International Committee of the Red Cross to tour a detention camp near Prague called Theresienstadt. But Theresienstadt is a total lie and the International Committee of the Red Cross falls for it. 2010 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation