Who Killed Janko?

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The official propoganda of WWI had the Germans pitchforking Belgian babies and raping nuns, a nice mix to generate outrage, all untrue. De-humanize your enemy and he gets easier to kill. Whereas racism was a valuable tool to motivate soldiers in previous wars, today a Canadian soldier will be disciplined if he gets caught by the wrong person denigrating his enemy. Foolish but true. I knew a 12 year reserve veteran with a couple overseas postings, including being shot at and shelled in Croatia, who quit because he was given more mind-molding courses than any military training.

One of the problems of WWI propaganda, debunked in a series of scholarly books such as ATROCITY PROPAGANDA, OFFICIAL BRITISH FILM PROPAGANDA and others, is that it tended to multiply too much with countless examples, angles and subplots thus becoming easier to debunk.
With WWII 'good guys' were much more careful and basically stuck to one narrative; that didn't prevent dissidents from emerging or differences from emerging in the accounts of some parties.
In the movie LE CHAGRIN ET LA PITIE' (1969), while French-Jewish statesman Mendes-France claims he had become a valiant fighter right after his escape from Vichy's prisons, another anti-fascist veteran claims to have threatened to bounce Mendes-France out of a night club in Morocco (?) because he was partying and drinking champagne in the company of a charming lady who happened not to be his wife. The other man (an army captain) walked up to Mendes-France (air force lieutenant) and presented him his card & message claiming it was a shame that such scene took places during the war.