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British propaganda in Allied and neutral countries. Note by Lord Cecil from the Foreign Office, 29 December 1916

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
Tags: cartoon, Dutch East Indies, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, India, Java, Jihad, Muslims, Neutrality, newspapers, Photograph, Propaganda, Race, The Netherlands

A Maori song about the First World War

This waiata (song) is attributed to Sir Apirana Ngata, a Maori member of the New Zealand parliament. He wrote it down in this form and publicized it to inspire wartime recruitment. Ngata published it…

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Themes: Recording; Propaganda; Gender
Tags: Maori, Music, New Zealand, Women

Halfmoon Camp in Wünsdorf-Zossen. Three-legged race

The postcard shows a group of prisoners of war and their guards in the propaganda camp in Wünsdorf. They are shown supposedly in their leisure time; some of them doing a three-legged race, others are…

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Photograph; Captivity
Tags: colonial intellectual, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, Personal Encounters, Photograph, postcard, POW, pow-camp

Portrait Photography: Ganga Ram

Ganga Ram was one of approximately 1,000 South Asians in German prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War. Fighting at the Western Front, he was taken prisoner and brought to Germany. South…

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Themes: Propaganda; Photograph; Captivity
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Germany Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, POW, pow-camp, religion

In Holland stands a house, YES - YES!!!

This postcard is based on an old Dutch song for children ‘In Holland stands a house’. Soldiers of all belligerent nations are pictured dancing around the Dutch Peace Palace, a symbol of the…

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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
Tags: Neutrality, Pacifism, Peace, postcard, The Netherlands

Letter to the captain

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
Tags: Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Halfmoon Camp, India, Letter, religion

East Indies

The poem 'Oostinje' is written by the Dutch cabaret artist Jacobus Speenhoff in which he pleas for a stronger Dutch allegiance to the Dutch East Indies in times of global war. To read the original…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Poem; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Dutch East Indies, German Revolutionary Program, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, Japan, Java, Muslims, Poem, Race, The Netherlands

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

Greenmantle

Published in 1916, the novel Greenmantle was a wartime bestseller written by the English author John Buchan who also worked as a high-ranking propaganda official at the British propaganda office,…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: anti-colonialism, Camp, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, novel, orientalism, Propaganda, South Africa, Wellington House

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 State of War', Frederik van Eeden to the Belgians

An open letter addressed to 'the Belgians' from the Dutch writer Frederik van Eeden. He supported the Belgian nation and considered Belgium as possessing a far higher moral standard than Germany. To…

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Letter; Language; Intellectual Exchange

I accuse! (J'accuse!) By a German, with a preface by Frederik van Eeden, 1915

Dutch translation of the famous German, anti-war manifesto J'accuse by a German, written anonymously but most likely by the German pacifist Richard Grelling. To read the original introduction in Dutch…

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-German, Dutch, Van Eeden, writer

Latin Spring. Essays and notes

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
Tags: anti-German, Dutch, essay, France, Germany, Latin, nationalism, Neutrality, Race, The Netherlands

German propaganda in Islamic countries, March 1917

In this report of 18 March 1917, the French envoy Henri Allizé to The Hague listed all pan-Islamic propaganda printed by German officials in the Netherlands and circulated to the British and French…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, France, German Revolutionary Program, Malay, Muslims, official documents, pamphlet, pan-Islamism, Propaganda, revolution, The Netherlands

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

Our enemies: 96 facial types from German prisoner-of-war camps

Front page of a propaganda publication which contained portraits of 96 prisoners of war, which were taken in German prisoner-of-war camps in 1915. Also shown are a cover of the Dutch translation of…

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Captivity
Tags: anti-British, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Photograph, Propaganda, Race, Racism

Advertisement for The Chronicle of the European War 1914 published in the Dutch book catalogue in 1916

Advertisement for Gedenkboek van den Europeeschen Oorlog 1914 (The Chronicle of the European War 1914) in the Dutch book catalogue in 1916

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Themes: Neutrality; Language
Tags: Dutch, Dutch book market, The Netherlands

Official Canadian photograph of wounded men examining their trophies

This photograph depicts wounded Canadian soldiers behind the Canadian advance east of Arras in September 1918. They are showing trophies to each other, including a pistol in the hand of the front and…

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Theme: Photograph

British West Indies Regiment Diary

Published account of the arrival of the second contingent of the British West Indies Regiment. Published by The Daily Gleaner, a Jamaican newspaper.

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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Gender; Diary
Tags: West Indies

Al-Haqīqah: British Propaganda Newspaper for the Muslim World

At the outbreak of war, the British government established an organisation to produce propaganda. Initially known as Wellington House, it later became the Department of Information, and ended the war…

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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Imperial Strategy
Tags: British India, Empire, imperial strategy, Magazine, Photograph, Propaganda

Maurice Valette's identification documents

The pictures show Maurice Valette's documents as a soldier in the French army and as a prisoner of war in the German camp Rennbahn, near Münster.

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Themes: Photograph; Captivity
Tags: newspapers, poet, POW, pow-camp, western front

To my Friends in the East and in the West

In this pseudo-mystic poem originally written in German, the Dutch writer and famous internationalist Frederik van Eeden expressed his belief in the rise of a new internationalist world from the ashes…

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Themes: Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
Tags: French, German, internationalism, Netherlands, newspapers, Poem, Rolland, Switzerland, Translation, Van Eeden

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

'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 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