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 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
Pamphlet produced by either the Indian National Party or the German-sponsored Indian Independence Committee in Berlin and published in 1915. To read the original text, please click on the source…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Language; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Dutch East Indies, German Revolutionary Program, India, Neutrality, orientalists, pamphlet, The Netherlands
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
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
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
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
The Dutch translation of the pamphlet 'Is India loyal?' was originally written in English and published by the German sponsored Indian National Party in 1915. To read fragments of the original source…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, Dutch, English, German Revolutionary Program, Great-Britain, India, Language, nationalism, Neutrality, orientalists, pamphlet, Propaganda, revolution, The Netherlands
Dated 29 December 1916, this report by Lord Cecil from the British Foreign Office comprises evaluations of British propaganda conducted in both Allied and neutral countries and among Muslim…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Poem; Photograph; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
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cartoon, Dutch East Indies, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, India, Java, Jihad, Muslims, Neutrality, newspapers, Photograph, Propaganda, Race, 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
These three drawings made by Ganga Ram Gurung in spring 1917 in the Halfmoon camp are preserved in one of the photo albums of Otto Stiehl at the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin. They depict…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-colonialism, Halfmoon Camp, Hindu, imperial strategy, India, painting, POW
This poem was written by the Irish poet Denis Florence MacCarthy (1817–1882). It was published in the first issue of a journal which had been published in Urdu under the title (achwat/achuwwat)…
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Themes: Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Language; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, colonies, imperial strategy, India, Ireland, Language, Ottoman Empire, Poem, revolution, Urdu