Political Propaganda of the 20th CenturyDisplayed Through Posters (Examples of Archival Materials)

Abstract

This paper explains political propaganda through the Collections of Posters of the State Archives in Slavonski Brod and State Archives in Gospic with the review of other archives and Memorial Documentation Centre of the Homeland War (HMDCDR). It includes the period from the First World War when the war propaganda began to the Second World War until the propaganda reached its peak. The paper also includes the period of forming Yugoslavia and the Republic of Croatia. It is interesting to see how political propaganda benefited different government systems and how it impacted the people’s lives. During the Second World War the poster became the most powerful way of visual communication through which today it is possible to form an idea of the political and social situation of that period. The posters that are kept in the National Archives could be a significant secondary source of historical data.