A History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-46

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EXHIBITIONS, WINDOW DISPLAYS, ETC.

Apart from the display of actual photographs every effort should be made to arrange with suitable STORES, GALLERIES, etc. to

DISPLAY “TROPHIES” OF THE WAR illustrating the Germans’ inhuman and treacherous methods. Proclamations, Weapons and Articles brought from captured areas.

HOW A REFUGEE ARRIVED - “This pitiful little bundle all that a doctor's wife was able to bring from her ruined home in Rotterdam”.

FULL-SIZE MODELS showing German Parachute Soldiers dressed first as Nuns and then in fighting kit with Thompson gun, etc.

Such ideas can easily be multiplied. They would bring crowds to the stores and collection could be made for Red-Cross etc.

OPEN AIR DISPLAYS in parks etc., with captured German ‘planes etc. might later be arranged. This recalls the colossal success of the “Kiddies in the Ruins” scene in Trafalgar Square last time as part of the historic “Feed the Guns” Campaign. Trafalgar Square became a three-dimensional model of a shelled French village. (Actual ruins of Trafalgar Square would of course render such an idea superfluous!)

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