Lightning War and Lightning Chaos... The Polish Campaign of 1939 in the Collaborationist (“Reptile”) Press (In the Context of Psychological and Information Warfare)

The paper discusses the ways of presenting the course of the 1939 Polish Campaign in the collaborationist press (so-called ‘reptile’) of the General-Gouvernement. The course of the defensive war was one of the first subjects used by German propagandists to manipulate public opinions and create public sentiments before, during and after the end of Poland’s defensive war in 1939. The narrative produced by the collaborationist press, concerning the causes of the war and defeat of the Polish army, became a significant element of the psychological and information warfare waged by the Third Reich.