It was used to get support from their side, as well as from their enemies side. Propaganda is much more likely to work if there is someone well known on it because people listen to what they say, and if a country can have a well known POW to say that he’s being treated well and that his own government abandoned him, then the country can have support from other countries. This is what Japan was trying to do when they attempted to have Louis make a scripted radio
It was used to get support from their side, as well as from their enemies side. Propaganda is much more likely to work if there is someone well known on it because people listen to what they say, and if a country can have a well known POW to say that he’s being treated well and that his own government abandoned him, then the country can have support from other countries. This is what Japan was trying to do when they attempted to have Louis make a scripted radio