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“She was also surprised to find herself questioning the role that she had played in pitting one side against the other.
“Did I hate the Germans? The Japanese? Not really. I helped make up the slogans to make the other people hate,” she said. “Packaged hate, like packaged breakfast foods, produced by the ad man in uniform. And a prize of a promise in every package—the corner drugstore, ice cubes, America.”

Her conviction: Marlene played the widow of a German general who was killed during the war by the Allies. Filming proceeded relatively smoothly until one scene where she had to deny German culpability in the Holocaust.
Her line: “Well, you know, we never knew anything.” She didn’t believe it, she couldn’t say it, and she stumbled over it again and again. She would never get over what the Nazis had done

That’s a cruel and short-sighted tactic; overtly extractive, diff from Zuzka’s embedded op. “She wanted sob stories, but the women weren’t at all interested in confiding in her. “All they seemed to be interested in was cadging cigarettes and lipsticks from the nurses,” said Betty. She was, however, a bit taken aback when one of the women wanted to know how much Betty made as a “comfort woman”

Senjin kun published by Japan after massacre and rape of 1937 Nanking (rape and murder of 200k Chinese civilians over 6 weeks). MO black propaganda created of satirical version of Senjin kun

“A good leaflet has a double impact: the initial impact on the casual passerby, which must convey its main message at first glance; and the delayed impact on the careful reader, which must provide him with food for thought when he has time to read it through in latrines. Pictures, captions and display are at least 50 percent of the value of any leaflet.The writer who disregards this is a menace to leafleteering.”