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Hindostan and El Dschihad

Hindostan and El Dschihad were propaganda newspapers for South Asian, Caucasian, and North African prisoners of war in the Halbmondlager in Wünsdorf and the Weinberglager in Zossen. These periodicals…

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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, Arabic, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, Hindi, Jihad, Language, newspapers, official documents, orientalism, orientalists, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, religion, revolution, Russian, Tatar, Urdu

Poem 'When I go from hence'

'Jabar dine' ['When I go from hence'] is poem number 96 in the Indian poet and intellectual Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize winning collection of poems titled the Gitanjali. The British war poet…

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Themes: Poem; Intellectual Exchange

Interned British Indian soldiers peeling potatoes in Townley Hall, The Hague

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
Tags: Camp, Great-Britain, India, Neutrality, POWs, Soldiers, The Netherlands

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

The Book in 1916 (book cover and selected pages)

A catalogue listing those books available in the Netherlands in 1916 and books published in 1916-17, with an introduction by D. Smit about the Dutch book market during the first years of the war.

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

Second plan of work for Bangkok by Ernest Douwes Dekker

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
Tags: 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

For my Fatherland

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
Tags: anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, Imperial identity, Java, nationalism, poet, Tagore

Collection of Poems: Message from the East

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
Tags: British India, Moslem world, Poem

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

Pictures from Belgium

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
Tags: Belgian refugees, Belgium, film propaganda, Netherlands

Poems by Albert Verwey

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
Tags: cultural propaganda, Dutch, Europe, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, Germany, Language, poet, The Netherlands, Translation

Letter by a Dutch reader on the pro-Allied book Belgium and Germany by Henri Davignon

Extract from a letter by a Dutch reader on the pro-Allied book Belgium and Germany: texts and documents by Henri Davignon. The Dutch translation of the book enjoyed immense popularity among a Dutch…

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Letter; Language; Intellectual Exchange
Tags: cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Propaganda, Translation

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

Cover image: Die Woche - Bilder vom Tage, 11 January 1916

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
Tags: 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

Letters from Chempa Karam Pillai in Amsterdam to the Indian Independence Committee in Berlin

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
Tags: Berlin Indian Independence Committee, colonial intellectual, Dutch East Indies, Ernest Douwes Dekker, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, India, Japan, Java, nationalism, Neutrality, pamphlet, Siam

'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

German propaganda in Islamic countries, March 1917

In this report of 18 March 1917, the French envoy Henri Allizé to The Hague listed all pan-Islamic propaganda printed by German officials in the Netherlands and circulated to the British and French…

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

To my Friends in the East and in the West

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
Tags: French, German, internationalism, Netherlands, newspapers, Poem, Rolland, Switzerland, Translation, Van Eeden

'The Dutch and the French'

Written account of 'Hollandais et Français' ['The Dutch and the French'], a lecture given by the Dutch professor of Romance languages Jean-Jacques Salverda de Grave at the Alliance Française society…

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
Tags: cultural propaganda, Dutch, France, Language, nationalism, pro-French, Race, The Netherlands

'Who still talks about decadent France?'
Cartoon 'The Battle of Verdun'

Cartoon on the Battle of Verdun by Johan Braakensiek, published in the Dutch weekly De Amsterdammer, 5 March 1916. The cartoon shows France imagined as a powerful 'antique' woman, who stops an…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Gender
Tags: anti-German, cartoon, France, Gender, nationalism, Neutrality, pro-French, Propaganda, Race, The Netherlands

Confirmation of payment to the Dutch book dealer Mensing from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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
Tags: cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Propaganda, The Netherlands

German film propaganda

German advertisement for Messter-Film GmbH, which was part of the government-sponsored Ufa concern. The advertisement was published in the Dutch film magazine De Bioscoop in early 1918.

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Film
Tags: film propaganda, Germany, Neutrality, Race, The Netherlands

Efforts for the liberation of Algeria and Tunisia: A convention in Berlin, convoked by Sheikh Salih al-Sharif

The photograph shows a group of men and one woman standing on a stairway in front of a facade. In the background, chandeliers are visible. Sheikh Salih al-Sharif is standing in the first row, second…

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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Photograph; Newspapers & Magazines; Mobility; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Algeria, anti-colonialism, anti-French, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, German Revolutionary Program, newspapers, Non-Combatant, pan-Islamism, Propaganda, Refugees

Latin Spring. Essays and notes

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
Tags: anti-German, Dutch, essay, France, Germany, Latin, nationalism, Neutrality, Race, The Netherlands

Interned British soldiers in Groningen crafting picture frames from cigar boxes to sell to British companies

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
Tags: Camp, Great-Britain, Neutrality, POWs, Soldiers, The Netherlands