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In what ways did the government attempt to hide the effects of the Blitz from the people of Britain
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... In what ways did the government attempt to hide the effects of the Blitz from the people of Britain? Straight away when the war begun the government formed the Ministry of Information. This was an attempt to regulate all the news and propaganda. 3 000 people worked for the MoI. The Government's aim was to keep up the morale of the people in Britain. The population had to happy so that they had the ability to produce enough in the factories or on the farms. To hide the effects of the Blitz from the people the government used propaganda and censorship. The government would censor photographs such as children dying in the bombing, the photograph of a school playground in Catford School as it showed dead children and any photographs of angry people or looting which were people stealing from the houses that were bombed. Newspaper articles were also taken out but














