Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict

'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 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

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

La puissance militaire de la France

Dutch newspaper advert, French film poster of, and film excerpt of the official French propaganda documentary La puissance militaire de la France (1917) that demonstrated the military potential of…

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Film
Tags: film propaganda, militarism, Neutrality

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

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

The Film World

A Dutch film magazine, established by Belgian refugees but taken over and financed by the German embassy in the summer of 1918.

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Film
Tags: film propaganda, German, Neutrality, 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

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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

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'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

Neutral Holland. The Army and Navy film

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
Tags: 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

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Imperialism, World War and Social Democracy

Essay by the Dutch poet and socialist Herman Gorter on the First World War, imperialism, and the International (an international organisation of socialist parties). The essay was published in…

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Themes: Race; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-colonialism, Dutch, essay, imperial strategy, internationalism, Neutrality, public intellectual, revolution, socialism, The Netherlands, writer

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

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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

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

All or nothing

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

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

Cool heads!

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
Tags: anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, loyalty, nationalism, Neutrality, 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

'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

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

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

War News

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
Tags: film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality