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
A drawing of interned British Indian soldiers with turbans and beards peeling potatoes in Townley Hall, The Hague.
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Themes: Race; Neutrality; Mobility; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Camp, Great-Britain, India, Neutrality, POWs, Soldiers, The Netherlands
Parcel label for a delivery of bread, addressed to Indian prisoners of war at Halbmondlager, Zossen.
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Themes: Neutrality; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, India, POW, pow-camp
Press excerpt, official letter, and newspaper clipping commenting on the issuance of two German medals commemorating the sinking of Lusitania and Tubantia.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality
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Germany, Netherlands, Neutrality, Propaganda
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
In this report of 20 December 1916, the British Foreign Office outlines its propaganda activities in the Muslim world. The list demonstrates the global scope of British-led ‘Muslim propaganda’…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-German, Arabic, cartoon, Dutch East Indies, Great-Britain, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, Java, Language, Muslims, newspapers, pamphlet, pan-Islamism, Propaganda, Race, The Netherlands, Wellington House
Official letter from Hubert Montgomery (Foreign Office, London) to Alan Johnstone (British envoy in the Netherlands) on anti-Allied propaganda in Amsterdam in 1916.
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Propaganda, Wellington House
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
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anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, France, French, German Revolutionary Program, Jihad, Muslims, newspapers, pamphlet, pan-Islamism, revolution, The Netherlands
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
In 1916, the female, Jewish, Dutch writer Carry van Bruggen published the essay ‘Patriotism, Love for Humanity and Education' as a scathing complaint against the rise of patriotism in the…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, Gender, internationalism, Jewish, nationalism, The Netherlands, writer
Of a Lost Summer is a travelogue by the Flemish writer Cyriel Buysse that documents the Western Front in France and Belgium, where he also visited the destructed towns in West Flanders where he was…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Captivity
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Flemish, Race, Senegalese, Soldiers, trenches, war novel
Newspaper advert for a cinema screening in Amsterdam in 1915. The film programme usually consisted of three different features, ideally each from a different country (preferably neutral). An essential…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality
Newspaper article by the most famous Indonesian anti-colonial writer and revolutionary Ernest Douwes Dekker on the duties and loyalties of Dutch colonials. The article 'Our Duty' was published in the…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Colonial soldiers, Dutch East Indies, loyalty, Neutrality, newspapers, pro-German, socialism, The Netherlands
In this poem, the Dutch poet Albert Verwey criticises the execution of Boer rebel Josef Fourie by the pro-British government of South Africa. Verwey defends the rights of the Dutch-speaking Afrikaners…
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Themes: Race; Poem; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, Boer war, Dutch, Great Netherlands, Poem, poet, Race, South Africa, The Netherlands
Plan written by the Indonesian journalist, translator and writer Raden Mas Sosrokartono to counter German imperial strategies in Asia, in particular the German journal Der Neue Orient. Armed with this…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, anti-German, colonial intellectual, Dutch East Indies, France, German Revolutionary Program, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, loyalty, newspapers, Propaganda, The Netherlands
The receipt is confirmation of a payment made in 1919. This was the final instalment (amounting to 7,500 fl.) of the total sum of 27,500 guilders, paid to the Dutch book dealer Bernard Mensing (whose…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Propaganda, The Netherlands
Cartoon by Dutch artist Albert Hahn, in which two 'uncivilized' black men read about the German atrocities in their newspaper The Jungle. The text reads: 'Are these Europeans not the people who send…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
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cartoon, Civilization, imperial strategy, Race
Documentary made in 1916 showing a large group of Belgian refugees - women, men and children - in a camp in the Netherlands performing their daily activities…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Film; Captivity
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Belgian refugees, Belgium, film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality
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
A Dutch film magazine, established by Belgian refugees but taken over and financed by the German embassy in the summer of 1918.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, German, Neutrality, The Netherlands
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
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anti-colonialism, Colonial Troops, Dutch, France, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, India, internationalism, Race, The Netherlands, writer
A collection of poems written by the most famous Dutch poet Albert Verwey, translated into German and published by the internationally renowned German publishing house Insel Verlag in Leipzig in 1917.…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Poem; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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cultural propaganda, Dutch, Europe, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, Germany, Language, poet, The Netherlands, Translation
The poem 'Oostinje' is written by the Dutch cabaret artist Jacobus Speenhoff in which he pleas for a stronger Dutch allegiance to the Dutch East Indies in times of global war. To read the original…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Poem; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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Dutch East Indies, German Revolutionary Program, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, Japan, Java, Muslims, Poem, Race, The Netherlands
Excerpt providing information about the Dutch premiere of Britain Prepared, a Dutch advert, and a British advertising brochure. Film clip: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060023124
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, mobilisation, Neutrality
In this pseudo-mystic poem originally written in German, the Dutch writer and famous internationalist Frederik van Eeden expressed his belief in the rise of a new internationalist world from the ashes…
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Themes: Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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French, German, internationalism, Netherlands, newspapers, Poem, Rolland, Switzerland, Translation, Van Eeden