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German propaganda in support of Islam in the Dutch East Indies, 4 May 1916

The first fragment contains the report of 4 May 1916 written by the French envoy to The Hague Henri Allizé to the French Ministry of Colonies regarding German incitement of Indonesian Muslims. The…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, France, French, German Revolutionary Program, Jihad, Muslims, newspapers, pamphlet, pan-Islamism, revolution, The Netherlands

Official Canadian photograph of wounded men examining their trophies

This photograph depicts wounded Canadian soldiers behind the Canadian advance east of Arras in September 1918. They are showing trophies to each other, including a pistol in the hand of the front and…

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Theme: Photograph

Camp Weinberg near Zossen

The first picture shows a group of prisoners sliding a rack wagon full of parcels in the camp.
The second picture shows a group of prisoners, probably Tatar, practising gymnastics.
The third…

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Themes: Propaganda; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Craft, German Revolutionary Program, Labour, POW, pow-camp

Halfmoon Camp in Wünsdorf

The sketch depicts the mosque which was erected in the Halfmoon Camp in 1915. In the foreground, human silhouettes are identifiable. They appear as if wearing traditional turbans and cloaks. Other…

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Themes: Religion; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, anti-French, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, painting, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda

If only you would've had me!

Propaganda postcard promoting Dutch neutrality by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.

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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
Tags: Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, The Netherlands

Personal information form related to sound recording no. 271

The so-called Personalbogen (personal information form) was created by the members of the Royal Prussian Phonographic Commission to assist in the process of recording the voices of POWs held in…

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Themes: Recording; Language; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: Colonial Troops, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Language, Mobility, POW, pow-camp

Al-Haqīqah: British Propaganda Newspaper for the Muslim World

At the outbreak of war, the British government established an organisation to produce propaganda. Initially known as Wellington House, it later became the Department of Information, and ended the war…

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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Imperial Strategy
Tags: British India, Empire, imperial strategy, Magazine, Photograph, Propaganda

'The influence of the war on Dutch book production 1913-1920'

The article deals with book production in the Netherlands in the years 1913-1920.

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
Tags: Dutch book market, The Netherlands

'The State of War', Frederik van Eeden to the Belgians

An open letter addressed to 'the Belgians' from the Dutch writer Frederik van Eeden. He supported the Belgian nation and considered Belgium as possessing a far higher moral standard than Germany. To…

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Letter; Language; Intellectual Exchange

'Germany's victory by Luis Antón del Olmet'

Short review of a pro-German book Der Sieg Deutschlands by the Spanish author Luis Antón del Olmet. Published in the Dutch weekly De Toekomst.

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
Tags: Dutch book market, Germany, Propaganda, Translation

'The Empire's Flag'

The propaganda postcard ‘The Empire’s Flag’ was sent to many British colonies and protectorates in 1916 and 1917. On the obverse, it bears an image of the Union Jack and, on the reverse, a poem…

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Poem; Mobility; Language; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Arabic, Chinese, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, English, Great-Britain, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, Language, loyalty, Malay, postcard, Urdu, Wellington House

India under British Rule

This poem was written by the Irish poet Denis Florence MacCarthy (1817–1882). It was published in the first issue of a journal which had been published in Urdu under the title (achwat/achuwwat)…

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Themes: Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Language; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, colonies, imperial strategy, India, Ireland, Language, Ottoman Empire, Poem, revolution, Urdu

La puissance militaire de la France

Dutch newspaper advert, French film poster of, and film excerpt of the official French propaganda documentary La puissance militaire de la France (1917) that demonstrated the military potential of…

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Film
Tags: film propaganda, militarism, Neutrality

He said something!

Propaganda postcard promoting Dutch neutrality whilst being under foreign pressure to join the war, drawn by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.

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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
Tags: Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, The Netherlands

Report on French propaganda in the Netherlands, May 1916

In May 1916, the French propaganda official Maurice Gandolphe wrote an extensive advisory report to strengthen French cultural propaganda in the Netherlands. He had conducted a secret mission to the…

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
Tags: cultural propaganda, French, newspapers, official documents, public intellectual, The Netherlands

Sketches and proposals on film propaganda written as a result of a journey to Holland

Official report written by Dr Hans Cürlis after his journey to the Netherlands.

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Film
Tags: nationalism, Pan-Germanism, Propaganda

Report of Richard von Kühlmann, German envoy in the Netherlands, to the German chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg, 5 October 1915

In this October 1915 report, the German envoy in the Netherlands, Richard von Kühlmann, discussed German ambitions in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Flanders. To read the original report, please click…

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Belgium, cultural propaganda, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, Flemish activism, German Revolutionary Program, Germany, imperial strategy, Language, Neutrality, official documents, Race, The Netherlands

East and West in the War

Newspaper article by the Dutch writer Henri Borel on the entry of British and French colonial troops in the war. The article 'East and West in the War' was published in the colonial newspaper…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-colonialism, Colonial Troops, Dutch, France, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, India, internationalism, Race, The Netherlands, writer

French mothers

Dutch brochure advertising the French propaganda masterpiece Mères françaises, starring Sarah Bernhardt.

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Gender; Film
Tags: anti-German, film propaganda, France, Neutrality, pro-French

The memoir of an interpreter with the Chinese Labour Corps

The only eyewitness account from a member of the Chinese Labour Corps that has been translated into a western language, the memoir of Gu Xingqing is a remarkable and important document. Even if Gu did…

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Themes: Mobility; Memoirs

German prisoners in Algiers

A postcard picturing German prisoners in Algiers. On the reverse are words printed in poor Dutch: 'One can see from the look of them that they have not suffered from their treatment' ('Men kan hat hem…

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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: Algeria, Camp, France, Germany, postcard, POWs, Propaganda, Soldiers

Memoir On to Bagdad by Sisir Prasad Sarbadhikari

The above extract evokes the everyday milieu at the hospital in Aleppo where Sisir Sarbadhikari, after being taken as a POW, worked as a medical orderly in 1917. While the Turks are often described as…

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Themes: Mobility; Memoirs; Captivity

Jean-Pierre Laurens' Lithograph of a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany

Excerpt from Jean-Pierre Laurens’ album of 18 lithographs devoted to the camp of Wittenberg in Germany, in which he spent several years as a prisoner. This image shows a confrontation between German…

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Themes: Race; Captivity
Tags: Camp, Captivity, Colonial Troops, Drawing, Germany, Internment

French Marines

Newspaper advert for the French propaganda film screened in the Netherlandshttp://www.cnc-aff.fr/internet_cnc/Internet/ARemplir/parcours/EFG1914/pages_FR/B_412.html

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
Tags: film propaganda, militarism, Neutrality

The position of the German army at Verdun

Cartoon from a colonial newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië. The caption reads 'A difficult dilemma: it is impossible to push down and if he releases, it will crush him.

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Film
Tags: Propaganda, western front