This song was recorded in the Halfmoon camp in Wünsdorf in 1918. Biographical details of the singer are in the PK-files. A translation was produced by Samir El-Moussati in 2014.
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Themes: Recording; Race; Propaganda; Captivity
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Arabic, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Language, POW, pow-camp, Sound Recording
The first picture shows the inauguration of the Tatar memorial stone in the Tatar section of the cemetery in Zehrensdorf. Prisoners from both propaganda camps attended the ceremony, as well as Ottoman…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, mobilisation, orientalism, pan-Islamism, Photograph, postcard, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, religion
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
Front page of a propaganda publication which contained portraits of 96 prisoners of war, which were taken in German prisoner-of-war camps in 1915. Also shown are a cover of the Dutch translation of…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Captivity
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anti-British, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Photograph, Propaganda, Race, Racism
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
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
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
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
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, anti-French, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, painting, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda
Cover and extracts from Bei uns in Deutschland (Brussels, 1919), First World War memoirs of the Flemish author Ernest Claes, based on his time in a German POW camp in Erfurt.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Mobility; Memoirs; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Diary; Captivity
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Belgium, Camp, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, France, Germany, Memoir, Muslims, Personal Encounters, Soldiers, writer
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
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
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 album contains around 40 vintage print photographs taken by Hans Schmidt in the Halfmoon Camp in 1917. They depict daily life in the propaganda camp, such as class hours, craftmen in the workshop,…
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Themes: Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Craft, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Labour, Music, Muslims, Personal Encounters, POW, pow-camp
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 couple of pages from the trench notebook of Jemadar Mir Mast, found in a sealed envelope marked 'His Majesty's Service'. It contains a hand-drawn trench map, a series of casual jottings and numbers,…
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The document contains five songs in Arabic including a translation into German. The songs were performed by Hans Stumme (alias Fritz Klopfer) on 20 January 1915 on behalf of the Red Halfmoon…
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Themes: Religion; Poem; Language; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-colonialism, Arabic, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Music, orientalism, orientalists, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda
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
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Algeria, Camp, France, Germany, postcard, POWs, Propaganda, Soldiers
The three pictures show prisoners of war photographed by Otto Stiehl, who was assigned to the headquarters of both propaganda camps near Berlin.
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Personal Encounters, Photograph, POW, pow-camp, The Other
Collection of the newspaper L’Echo du camp de Rennbahn from issue 1 (10 June 1916) to the issue 85 (15 June 1918). Each issue contains 3 sheets (6 pages) with both texts and cartoons. The articles…
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Themes: Newspapers & Magazines; Captivity
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English, French, newspapers, POW, pow-camp, western front
The postcard is suggestive of the wide range of people fighting for the Allied armies. The mix of people - their uniforms, their skin tone, their facial expressions, and their postures - in front of a…
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Themes: Race; Postcard; Mobility; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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imperial strategy, orientalism, painting, postcard, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, Racism, 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
Brochure advertising a collection of pictures from wartime Belgium to Dutch cinema managers.
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Themes: Propaganda; Photograph; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Film; Captivity
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Belgian refugees, Belgium, film propaganda, Netherlands
Short German documentary showing religious celebrations at the end of Ramadan in the internment camps in Wünsdorf near Zossen. https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/2535
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Film; Captivity
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Camp, film propaganda, Germany, Muslims, The Netherlands
The photo shows a group of North African prisoners of war, two prisoners of unknown origin, and an officer, all in front of barracks. The prisoners are arranged in a way that shows them to be…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-colonialism, anti-French, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, Jihad, Muslims, Personal Encounters, Photograph, postcard, Propaganda, The Other
Letter written probably to Otto Stiehl, captain of the Halfmoon Camp in Wünsdorf. This forms part of Stiehl's photographic album and within it are complaints about English soldiers who claim to be…
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Themes: Letter; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-British, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Ireland, Irish, Letter, Non-Combatant, POW, pow-camp