Guidebook given to New Zealand troops before leave in London.
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Themes: Propaganda; Mobility
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Colonial Troops, Guidebook, London, New Zealand, Personal Encounters, Tourism
Handwritten note from the back of a war diary by a white South African private who served in the East African campaign in 1916-17. It lists two dozen words in Swahili and their English translation.…
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This June 1916 cover of the German sponsored Dutch magazine De Toorts (The Torch) shows how a French woman tears Flanders away from the Dutch king Willem I in 1830, the year in which Belgium became…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
On 24 January 1915, the Dutch writer Frederik van Eeden published a letter written by his close friend, the French writer Romain Rolland, in the Dutch weekly De Amsterdammer. In his letter to van…
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Themes: Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Letter; Intellectual Exchange
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Europe, French, internationalism, open letter, public intellectual, Rolland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Van Eeden, writer
This engraving is from a set of works made by the French artist Jean-Émile Laboureur in the harbour of Saint-Nazaire, France where he was assigned as an interpreter to the American Army in 1917. The…
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Theme: Race
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Drawing, Exchange, Interpreter, Labour, United States
Excerpt from Jean-Pierre Laurens’ album of 18 lithographs devoted to the camp of Wittenberg in Germany, in which he spent several years as a prisoner. This image shows a confrontation between German…
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Themes: Race; Captivity
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Camp, Captivity, Colonial Troops, Drawing, Germany, Internment
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
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anti-colonialism, Dutch, English, German Revolutionary Program, Great-Britain, India, Language, nationalism, Neutrality, orientalists, pamphlet, Propaganda, revolution, 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
The envelope is addressed to an Indian prisoner of war who served in the 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis infantry regiment. It is stamped with censorship marks for both Britain and Germany. It…
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Themes: Letter; Language; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, English, Halfmoon Camp, Letter, POW, pow-camp
This story narrated by the Indian soldier Faijaz Ali, born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan), was recorded on 30 March 1917 in the Wünsdorf camp. It tells of a sick king, who has a fish bone stuck in…
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Themes: Recording; Language; Captivity
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Colonial Troops, Fairy Tale, Halfmoon Camp, Hindustani, imperial strategy, Mobility, POW, pow-camp, Punjabi, Race, Sound Recording
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
Parcel label for a delivery of bread, addressed to Indian prisoners of war at Halbmondlager, Zossen.
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Themes: Neutrality; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, India, POW, pow-camp
Official letter from Hubert Montgomery (Foreign Office, London) to Alan Johnstone (British envoy in the Netherlands) on anti-Allied propaganda in Amsterdam in 1916.
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Propaganda, Wellington House
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
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German Revolutionary Program, imperial strategy, Jihad, Language, mobilisation, newspapers, orientalism, orientalists, pan-Islamism, pow-camp, Propaganda
These photographs were taken by a professional photographer who worked inside the camp Münster II. Maurice Valette bought the photographs and composed an album with scenes of daily life and portraits…
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Themes: Photograph; Language; Captivity
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Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Personal Encounters, Photograph, POW, pow-camp, western front
A Victory Parade was held in London on 19 July 1919 and soldiers were brought from India to participate in the parade in a show of imperial strength and unity. In the first image, Gurkhas from the…
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility
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
Italian propaganda film starring Bartolomeo Pagano announced in Dutch press adverts (https://vimeo.com/119842926).
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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Anti-German propaganda, film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality
Propaganda postcard promoting Dutch neutrality whilst being under foreign pressure to join the war, drawn by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
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Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, The Netherlands
Book cover of Frederik van Eeden's Dutch translation of Rabindranath Tagore's English version of the songs and poems by the poet Kabir.
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Themes: Language; Intellectual Exchange
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Tagore, Van Eeden
Newspaper article by the Dutch writer Henri Borel on the entry of British and French colonial troops in the war. The article 'East and West in the War' was published in the colonial newspaper…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, Colonial Troops, Dutch, France, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, India, internationalism, Race, The Netherlands, writer
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
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Arabic, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Language, POW, pow-camp, Sound Recording
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
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Maori, Music, New Zealand, Women
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
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Germany Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, POW, pow-camp, religion
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