Sources with the tag 'Neutrality'

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

'To the Netherlands'

Poem written on a postcard, in which 'a Belgian refugee' thanks the Netherlands for its hospitality.

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Themes: Poem; Neutrality; Captivity
Tags: Belgium, Camp, Neutrality, Poem, Refugees, The Netherlands

Jan Vermeulen - The Miller from Flanders

A poster for a German propaganda film about a Flemish miller who becomes convinced about the kind-heartened and generous nature of the Germans.

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

French Marines

Newspaper advert for the French propaganda film screened in the Netherlandshttp://www.cnc-aff.fr/internet_cnc/Internet/ARemplir/parcours/EFG1914/pages_FR/B_412.html

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
Tags: film propaganda, militarism, Neutrality

'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

The dangers that encircle Holland

Satirical cartoon displaying political dangers to Dutch territorial integrity

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
Tags: cartoon, Neutrality, Propaganda

Camp of Gouda (Our Belgian Refugees in Holland)

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
Tags: Belgian refugees, Belgium, film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality

In the Light of the Flame of War

Cover and extracts from In the Light of the Flame of War, an essay on the meaning of the war by the Dutch writer Frederik van Eeden, based on his lectures given in late 1914 and 1915 and published in…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: essay, internationalism, Neutrality, Pacifism, public intellectual, The Netherlands, Van Eeden

Latest Cinema World News

Newsreel compiled by Dutch film distributors, most probably F.A. Nöggerath or Jean Desmet (Blom 2003: 270), showing material from different parts of the world. It focuses on topics loosely related…

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
Tags: film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality

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

Duitsche Lusitania en Tubantia-Penningen

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
Tags: Germany, Netherlands, Neutrality, Propaganda

Royal Stearine Candle Factory in Gouda (1918)

Documentary film showing production processes in the Royal Candle Factory in Gouda in the Netherlands…

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
Tags: film propaganda, nationalism, Neutrality, The Netherlands

W P: Now or never!

Propaganda postcard commenting on the activities of war profiteers, drawn by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.

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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
Tags: Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, The Netherlands

If only you would've had me!

Propaganda postcard promoting Dutch neutrality by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.

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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
Tags: Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, The Netherlands

The Legend of Saint Barbara

An Italian propaganda film depicting the Germans as vandals trying to destroy ancient Roman civilisation and whose women were ready to fight for freedom to the bitter…

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Gender; Film
Tags: anti-German, film propaganda, Neutrality

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

The war and Momi's dream

Dutch newspaper advert promoting an Italian propaganda film. Film clip https://vimeo.com/85155924

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
Tags: film propaganda, Italy, Neutrality

Maciste alpino

Italian propaganda film starring Bartolomeo Pagano announced in Dutch press adverts (https://vimeo.com/119842926).

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
Tags: Anti-German propaganda, film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality

Kitchener cigars

Telegram from the British Consulate in Rotterdam to the Foreign Office requesting 500 portraits of Lord Kitchener.

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Themes: Propaganda; Photograph; Neutrality
Tags: Neutrality, Propaganda

The African Zouaves in Flanders

French propaganda film showing colonial troops in Belgium http://www.filmportal.de/video/zouaves-d-afrique-dans-les-flandres-belges

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Mobility; Imperial Strategy; Film
Tags: film propaganda, Neutrality, orientalism

Knitting mania in the Netherlands

This satirical cartoon, published in the newspaper Het Nieuws van den Dag on 11 January 1915, ridicules the many Dutch women's committees that took care of the mobilized Dutch soldiers.

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Gender
Tags: mobilization, Netherlands, Neutrality

'Causeries from Java'. Review of the British propaganda film The Battle of the Somme in the Dutch East Indies

Film review by the Dutch playwright and journalist Henri van Wermeskerken published in De Sumatra Post on 21 April 1917.

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Film
Tags: Dutch East Indies, film propaganda, German Revolutionary Program, Neutrality, newspapers, The Netherlands

French mothers

Dutch brochure advertising the French propaganda masterpiece Mères françaises, starring Sarah Bernhardt.

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Gender; Film
Tags: anti-German, film propaganda, France, Neutrality, pro-French

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

The Discovery of Germany (by the Martians)

A clipping from the German newspaper Weltspiegel that was kept by the German embassy in Pera (part of Constantinople).

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Film
Tags: film propaganda, Germany, Neutrality, newspapers, The Netherlands