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PWE Shoulder Title
PredecessorSO1
SuccessorPolitical Intelligence Department
Established1941
Founded atGreat Britain
Dissolved1945

During World War II, the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) was a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate both white and black propaganda, with the aim of damaging enemy morale and sustaining the morale of countries occupied or allied with Nazi Germany.[1]

  1. ^ "Could the BBC have done more to help Hungarian Jews?". BBC News. 13 November 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2016.

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