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In what ways did the government attempt to hide the effects of the blitz from the people of Britain? Between the 7th September 1940 and the summer of 1941 Hitler ordered for a prolonged series of night time raids  

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3. In what ways did the government attempt to hide the effects of the blitz from the people of Britain? Between the 7th September 1940 and the summer of 1941 Hitler ordered for a prolonged series of night time raids to be made on all major British cities, its aim was to create widespread chaos and ruin, to lower the British people's morale and to pressurize the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to sue for peace wit Germany. Although the Blitz was fairly successful in achieving the first two of these objectives the British government were able to take measures in order to minimize the blitzes effectiveness. The two main techniques that the British government used were Censorship and Propaganda. The British government was able to successfully implement the two techniques of Censorship and Propaganda through the creation of the ministry of information, this was a section of the government which was...

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