Sources with the tag 'Language'

'Irish, Finns and Flemings'

In the June 1918 article 'Irish, Finns and Flemings', an anonymous journalist from the German sponsored, Dutch journal De Toekomst [The Future] criticises the lack of Dutch support for the Flemish…

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Dutch, Fins, Flemish, German Revolutionary Program, Great Netherlands, imperial strategy, Irish, Language, newspapers, Pan-Germanism, Propaganda, Race, revolution

'The Empire's Flag'

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
Tags: Arabic, Chinese, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, English, Great-Britain, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, Language, loyalty, Malay, postcard, Urdu, Wellington House

Personal information form related to sound recording no. 271

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
Tags: Colonial Troops, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Language, Mobility, POW, pow-camp

A Maori lumber worker talking to a Frenchwoman. Forest de Nieppe, March 1917

An official photograph of a Maori forester interacting with a local French woman in March 1917.

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Photograph; Gender
Tags: Gender, Language, Race

Love song performed by the Moroccan prisoner of war Kadr Ben Hamed at the Halfmoon camp in Wünsdorf

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
Tags: Arabic, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Language, POW, pow-camp, Sound Recording

India under British Rule

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
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, colonies, imperial strategy, India, Ireland, Language, Ottoman Empire, Poem, revolution, Urdu

Zehrensdorf Indian cemetery

These photographs were taken at a commemoration event on 1 August 2014. The municipality of the small town Zossen, the Evangelical Church, together with inhabitants and guests came together at the…

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Themes: Religion; Photograph; Mobility; Captivity
Tags: Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, English, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, Hindi, imperial strategy, Jihad, Language, Memory, Muslims, orientalism, pan-Islamism, religion, Tatar

Der Neue Orient (The New Orient). Monthly newspaper on the political, economic, and spiritual life in the whole East

Der Neue Orient was one of the periodicals published by the Information Service for the East. As the table of contents shows, it reported on economic, political, cultural, and social developments in…

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Imperial Strategy
Tags: German Revolutionary Program, imperial strategy, Jihad, Language, mobilisation, newspapers, orientalism, orientalists, pan-Islamism, pow-camp, Propaganda

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

Map of the World in Arabic, Chinese, and Malay

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
Tags: Arabic, Belgium, Chinese, English, France, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, Language, Malay, Muslims, Propaganda, Race, Wellington House

'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

Great War Publicity: Particular Countries - the 'Moslem World'

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
Tags: 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

For Europe: An appeal from Holland to intellectuals of all nations

In these two extracts from Au-dessus de la mêlée, Rolland first discusses the rise of the Dutch Anti-War Association in October 1914, then moves onto the Association's translated manifesto…

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Themes: Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
Tags: Europe, internationalism, Language, Neutrality, Rolland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Van Eeden

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

'Is India loyal?'

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
Tags: anti-colonialism, Dutch, English, German Revolutionary Program, Great-Britain, India, Language, nationalism, Neutrality, orientalists, pamphlet, Propaganda, revolution, The Netherlands

Report of Richard von Kühlmann, German envoy in the Netherlands, to the German chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg, 5 October 1915

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
Tags: Belgium, cultural propaganda, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, Flemish activism, German Revolutionary Program, Germany, imperial strategy, Language, Neutrality, official documents, Race, The Netherlands