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
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film propaganda, Neutrality, orientalism
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
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anti-German, Dutch, essay, France, Germany, Latin, nationalism, Neutrality, Race, The Netherlands
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
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Belgium, cultural propaganda, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, Flemish activism, German Revolutionary Program, Germany, imperial strategy, Language, Neutrality, official documents, Race, The Netherlands
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
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Neutrality, Propaganda
Newspaper article by the most famous Indonesian anti-colonial writer and revolutionary Ernest Douwes Dekker on the duties and loyalties of Dutch colonials. The article 'Our Duty' was published in the…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Colonial soldiers, Dutch East Indies, loyalty, Neutrality, newspapers, pro-German, socialism, 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
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mobilization, Netherlands, Neutrality
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 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
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Camp, Great-Britain, Neutrality, POWs, Soldiers, The Netherlands
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
Documentary film showing production processes in the Royal Candle Factory in Gouda in the Netherlands…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, nationalism, Neutrality, The Netherlands
Propaganda postcard commenting on the British naval blockade, drawn by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard
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Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, 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
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
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film propaganda, Germany, Neutrality, The Netherlands
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
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film propaganda, Germany, Neutrality, Race, The Netherlands
Dutch manifesto of the Holland section of the League of Neutral States directed at American citizens in December 1916.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
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anti-German, Neutrality, Pacifism, Propaganda, South Africa, The Netherlands, United States
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
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Dutch East Indies, film propaganda, German Revolutionary Program, Neutrality, newspapers, The Netherlands
Dutch official propaganda film, showing the readiness of the Dutch army and navy to defend their country's neutrality.https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/film/leger-en-vlootfilm
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality
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
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film propaganda, Germany, Neutrality, newspapers, The Netherlands
German propaganda film from 1914 with Dutch subtitles http://filmportal.de/video/ihr-unteroffizier
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Gender; Film
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film propaganda, Germany, Netherlands, Neutrality
Newspaper article by the Indonesian journalist Ratu Langie in the weekly 'De Indiër. Weekblad gewijd aan het geestelijk en maatschappelijk leven van Indië en Oost-Azië' ['The Indonesian. Weekly…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, loyalty, nationalism, Neutrality, 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
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Belgium, Camp, Neutrality, Poem, Refugees, The Netherlands
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
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Europe, internationalism, Language, Neutrality, Rolland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Van Eeden
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
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film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality
Newspaper advert for a cinema screening in Amsterdam in 1915. The film programme usually consisted of three different features, ideally each from a different country (preferably neutral). An essential…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality
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
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Belgian refugees, Belgium, film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality