Report written by German General Consul Richard Kiliani following his official journey to the Netherlands.
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, Netherlands, Pan-Germanism
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
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Propaganda, western front
Published account of the arrival of the second contingent of the British West Indies Regiment. Published by The Daily Gleaner, a Jamaican newspaper.
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Gender; Diary
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West Indies
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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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
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film propaganda, militarism, Neutrality
This satirical cartoon, published in the newspaper Het Nieuws van den Dag on 11 January 1915, ridicules the many Dutch women's committees that took care of the mobilized Dutch soldiers.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Gender
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mobilization, Netherlands, Neutrality
The voice of the Russian soldier Levon Altunov was recorded in a prisoner-of-war camp in Chemnitz on 16 June 1916. The recording, inventoried as PK 325, is of a song in Armenian that speaks of…
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Themes: Recording; Language; Captivity
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Armenian, Colonial Troops, Folksong, imperial strategy, Mobility, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, Race, Sound Recording
The postcard shows a group of prisoners of war and their guards in the propaganda camp in Wünsdorf. They are shown supposedly in their leisure time; some of them doing a three-legged race, others are…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Photograph; Captivity
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colonial intellectual, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, Personal Encounters, Photograph, postcard, POW, pow-camp
Five photographs taken by the Alfieri Picture Service showing African, African American, and West Indian servicemen at the Coloured Soldiers and Sailors Club, London 1919. The images show that black…
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Themes: Race; Photograph
A selection of official photographs taken by Ernest Brooks of a sports day in France. Men of the South African Native Labour Corps are seen performing a 'Zulu war dance', watched by officers and men…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Photograph; Mobility
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
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
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Belgium, cultural propaganda, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, Flemish activism, German Revolutionary Program, Germany, imperial strategy, Language, Neutrality, official documents, Race, The Netherlands
An official photograph depicting a New Zealand soldier with two small children on Lemnos.
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility; Gender
Telegram from the British Consulate in Rotterdam to the Foreign Office requesting 500 portraits of Lord Kitchener.
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Themes: Propaganda; Photograph; Neutrality
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Neutrality, Propaganda
The pictures show Maurice Valette's documents as a soldier in the French army and as a prisoner of war in the German camp Rennbahn, near Münster.
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Themes: Photograph; Captivity
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newspapers, poet, POW, pow-camp, western front
A photograph taken in the English camp at Groningen during World War I. Members of the British navy are depicted crafting picture frames from cigar boxes.
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Themes: Photograph; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Captivity
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Camp, Great-Britain, Neutrality, POWs, Soldiers, The Netherlands
Newspapers advertisements from Dutch colonial newspapers about the official British war documentary The Battle of Ancre and the Advancement of the Tanks (1917).
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Film
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colonies, film propaganda, Netherlands, pro-British
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
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Camp, Captivity, Colonial Troops, Drawing, Germany, Internment
Anti-British pamphlet, reprinted in the Dutch East Indies by German propagandists.
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonies, German propaganda
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
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Arabic, Chinese, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, English, Great-Britain, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, Language, loyalty, Malay, postcard, Urdu, Wellington House
This second part of the poem 'For my Fatherland' is written by the poet Raden Mas Noto Soeroto, a Javanese prince. He was the first Indonesian poet to write Dutch. During the war, he was introduced to…
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Themes: Race; Poem; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, Imperial identity, Java, nationalism, poet, Tagore
The picture shows a wooden shelter surrounded by various men of colour, who wear different types of uniforms. Two of the men hold rifles, while others are sitting around a wooden object. The whole…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Imperial Strategy
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Colonialism, cultural propaganda, imperial strategy, Mobility, Photograph, postcard, The Other
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
In 1918 the Dutch poet and journalist Jan Greshoff compiled his newspaper articles and literary reviews in Latin Spring. Essays and Notes. These pieces had all been originally published in the…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Gender
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anti-German, Dutch, essay, France, Germany, Latin, nationalism, Neutrality, Race, The Netherlands
This cover image from Die Woche published on 11 January 1916 shows a sketch of Sheikh Salih al-Sharif al-Tunisi. He was a religious North African scholar who worked as a propagandist, advocating…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Intellectual Exchange
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anti-colonialism, anti-French, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, Non-Combatant, orientalism, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, Personal Encounters, POW, Propaganda, religion