The Role that Electronic Media Played in Psychological Warfare During the Second World War: Interview with Professor Guy Stern

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Copyright © 2011, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Professor Guy Stern was born in 1922 in Hildesheim, Germany. He immigrated to the US in 1937, received his high school diploma in St. Louis, Missouri, then attended St. Louis University before the war and got his B.A. at Hofstra University after WWII. He served from 1942 to 1945 in the US Army, Military Intelligence Service (rank of Master Sergeant). He was decorated with the Bronze Star. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953. He taught at various U.S. universities (most recently at Wayne State University) and as guest professor at five German institutions. He was Interim Director of the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, MI, and is currently Director of its Institute of the Righteous. Beyond his numerous publications on German history and literature, he has translated dramas by Brecht and poems by contemporary German authors. He The Role that Electronic Media Played in Psychological Warfare During the Second World War: Interview with Professor Guy Stern