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WW1 was this weird inbetween of 19th century formation warfare and 20th century all-out total industrial war. The level of information control and propaganda wa
by ginko 4y ago
WW1 was this weird inbetween of 19th century formation warfare and 20th century all-out total industrial war. The level of information control and propaganda was nothing like WW2, especially in the beginning.
- abeppu 4y agoOk, but if you're an Austro-Hungarian or German postmaster, and you have some number of letters going to French or British recipients, and somewhere there's a shifting front line of trenches and tanks and mustard gas, can you really roll up with mail bag to some quiet point and exchange it for incoming mail with some French or Italian counterpart? That seems like even if there wasn't a system of censors trying to make sure no military secrets are leaked, it would have required a great act of trust that no one on the other side had decided to mail a bomb or poison or at least instructions to a saboteur.
- whatshisface 4y agoMaybe they'd be transported through neutral territory or over the sea on neutrally-flagged vessels.
- mudita 4y agoYes, I found this related answer to a question on r/askhistorians about letters from prisoners of wars: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/55p22q/how_were_letters_from_pows_delivered_during_ww1/d8chimv/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/55p22q/how_w... "letters from and to POWs were usually sent through non-belligerent countries and humanitarian organizations such as Switzerland or the International Red Cross"