This postcard is based on an old Dutch song for children ‘In Holland stands a house’. Soldiers of all belligerent nations are pictured dancing around the Dutch Peace Palace, a symbol of the…
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
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Neutrality, Pacifism, Peace, postcard, The Netherlands
These photographs were taken by a professional photographer who worked inside the camp Münster II. Maurice Valette bought the photographs and composed an album with scenes of daily life and portraits…
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Themes: Photograph; Language; Captivity
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Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Personal Encounters, Photograph, POW, pow-camp, western front
This map of the world was produced in 1916 by Wellington House, the official British War Propaganda Bureau in London. The map aimed to demonstrate the ‘world dominance’ of the Allies, as it…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Language; Imperial Strategy
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Arabic, Belgium, Chinese, English, France, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, Language, Malay, Muslims, Propaganda, Race, Wellington House
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
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Colonial Troops, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Language, Mobility, POW, pow-camp
In this report addressed to the German Foreign Office, the anti-colonial Indonesian writer and politician Ernest Douwes Dekker (image 1) describes his secret mission to travel from Rotterdam to…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Berlin Indian Independence Committee, colonial intellectual, Dutch East Indies, Ernest Douwes Dekker, German Revolutionary Program, Germany, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, India, Java, nationalism, Neutrality, The Netherlands
The envelope is addressed to an Indian prisoner of war who served in the 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis infantry regiment. It is stamped with censorship marks for both Britain and Germany. It…
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Themes: Letter; Language; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, English, Halfmoon Camp, Letter, POW, pow-camp
Special Soldiers Number of The Crisis, journal of the National Association of Colored People published in New York, June 1918. The journal was circulated widely, not only in the US, but also among…
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines
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Allies, Magazine, Race, Soldiers, United States
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
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Craft, German Revolutionary Program, Labour, POW, pow-camp
From 1977 to 1978, a group of young people in Flanders interviewed local villagers about their experiences of living through the First World War. The Elfnovembergroep published the results in 1978,…
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Documentary film showing production processes in the Royal Candle Factory in Gouda in the Netherlands…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, nationalism, Neutrality, The Netherlands
In August 1915, the British Indian revolutionary and German agent Chempa Karam Pillai (image 1) wrote several reports from Amsterdam to the German-sponsored Indian Independence Committee in Berlin. He…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Letter; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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Berlin Indian Independence Committee, colonial intellectual, Dutch East Indies, Ernest Douwes Dekker, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, India, Japan, Java, nationalism, Neutrality, pamphlet, Siam
This story narrated by the Indian soldier Faijaz Ali, born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan), was recorded on 30 March 1917 in the Wünsdorf camp. It tells of a sick king, who has a fish bone stuck in…
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Themes: Recording; Language; Captivity
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Colonial Troops, Fairy Tale, Halfmoon Camp, Hindustani, imperial strategy, Mobility, POW, pow-camp, Punjabi, Race, Sound Recording
Guidebook given to New Zealand troops before leave in London.
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Themes: Propaganda; Mobility
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Colonial Troops, Guidebook, London, New Zealand, Personal Encounters, Tourism
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
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nationalism, Pan-Germanism, Propaganda
A poster advertising the German language journal Die Islamische Welt (The Islamic World), with a list of its contributors.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Imperial Strategy
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imperial strategy, Magazine, Moslem world, pro-German
Der Neue Orient was one of the periodicals published by the Information Service for the East. As the table of contents shows, it reported on economic, political, cultural, and social developments in…
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Imperial Strategy
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German Revolutionary Program, imperial strategy, Jihad, Language, mobilisation, newspapers, orientalism, orientalists, pan-Islamism, pow-camp, Propaganda
Open letters from the Egyptian revolutionary Dr Rifat to the German Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg published and commented on by an anonymous anti-colonial journalist in the Dutch-Indonesian weekly…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, Egypt, German Revolutionary Program, internationalism, Netherlands, newspapers, pro-German, Propaganda
Dutch brochure advertising the French propaganda masterpiece Mères françaises, starring Sarah Bernhardt.
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Gender; Film
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anti-German, film propaganda, France, Neutrality, pro-French
An Italian propaganda film depicting the Germans as vandals trying to destroy ancient Roman civilisation and whose women were ready to fight for freedom to the bitter…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Gender; Film
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anti-German, film propaganda, Neutrality
This photograph captures a rare encounter between colonial prisoners of war and the German public. A group of prisoners of war are escorted by German soldiers through the streets of Zossen-Wünsdorf,…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, India, Mobility, Photograph, postcard, POW, The Other, western front
Payam-i-Mashriq [Message from the East] is a collection of poems in Persian and Urdu by the twentieth-century Muslim poet and intellectual Mohammed Iqbal. Published in 1921, the collection was…
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Themes: Poem; Intellectual Exchange
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British India, Moslem world, Poem
Letter purportedly by two Christian prisoners of war interned in the Halfmoon camp requesting permission to go to church on Christmas Day in 1917. This forms part of Otto Stiehl's photographic…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Letter; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Halfmoon Camp, India, Letter, religion
Published in 1916, the novel Greenmantle was a wartime bestseller written by the English author John Buchan who also worked as a high-ranking propaganda official at the British propaganda office,…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-colonialism, Camp, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, novel, orientalism, Propaganda, South Africa, Wellington House
The picture shows a group of troopers and foot soldiers celebrating together; two men beat drums, while others wave their rifles. The flag of the Ottoman Empire is visible. A building is discernible…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Postcard; Imperial Strategy
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Colonialism, cultural propaganda, imperial strategy, Jihad, mobilisation, Mobility, Muslim, orientalism, Ottoman Empire, painting, pan-Islamism, postcard
Extract and photograph from the diary of Alison Mullineaux, a Canadian woman who travelled to Europe and served as a nurse's aid in the French Service de Santé. Both the diary extract and the…
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Gender; Diary