How did the British government use censorship to hide effects of the Blitz?
The government censored everything from film to posters. Censorship meant that parts of articles/pictures or other items that were found unsuitable were either removed or edited out. Sometimes even whole articles would be removed. News articles were written by the government and photos that were considered too harsh, such as a picture of the debris of a Girls school in Catford, which was not allowed to be published. Censorship was not always simply banning the photograph , it also could involve publishing edited photos, one photo of St. Paul’s Cathedral was modified to increase the amount of smoke in the picture and show St. Paul’s Cathedral majestically rising from within the smoke. The role of the censor was to make sure that the British public was lured into a false illusion of the ongoing events in the war so that they would support it and the government and not change their minds. Sometime censors did not completely block out articles completely, some newspapers were required to w
