Dutch newspaper advertisement about the official British war documentary.Dutch critic's article about the London premiere of The Battle of Ancre and the Advancement of Tanks. Film…
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Film
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film propaganda, militarism
Short review on the book by H.J.P.A. Kiersch Het Pangermanisme en de oorlog, which was published in Amsterdam by the publishing house Van Holkema en Warendorf.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
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cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Germany, Propaganda, The Netherlands
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
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
The sketch depicts the mosque which was erected in the Halfmoon Camp in 1915. In the foreground, human silhouettes are identifiable. They appear as if wearing traditional turbans and cloaks. Other…
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Themes: Religion; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, anti-French, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, painting, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda
Cover page and inside pages from one issue of The Kia Ora Coo-Ee, a magazine produced by Australian and New Zealand troops in Egypt and Palestine in 1918. The cover shows one Anzac soldier being…
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Themes: Newspapers & Magazines; Mobility
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Anzac, Colonial Troops, Egypt, Magazine
This photograph captures a rare encounter between colonial prisoners of war and the German public. A group of prisoners of war are escorted by German soldiers through the streets of Zossen-Wünsdorf,…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, India, Mobility, Photograph, postcard, POW, The Other, western front
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
The picture displays a group of prisoners of war (possibly recently captured) close to Ypres, one of the most embattled cities on the Western Front. The soldiers seem to belong to different branches…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-French, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, imperial strategy, Photograph, postcard, POW, Propaganda
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
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film propaganda, German, Neutrality, The Netherlands
An interior of the exotically decorated Music Room in the Brighton Pavilion. The room has been converted into a hospital ward and is lined with metal-framed beds. All the wounded are Indian soldiers…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda
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Allies, Colonial Troops, Hospital, Indian Army
Short review of a pro-German book Der Sieg Deutschlands by the Spanish author Luis Antón del Olmet. Published in the Dutch weekly De Toekomst.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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Dutch book market, Germany, Propaganda, Translation
Wide black-and-white shot of men from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, some on foot, some on camels, with their Egyptian guides in the desert, in front of the Sphinx and one of the Pyramids.
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Themes: Photograph; Mobility
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The Other, Tourism, Travel
The first fragment contains the report of 4 May 1916 written by the French envoy to The Hague Henri Allizé to the French Ministry of Colonies regarding German incitement of Indonesian Muslims. The…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, France, French, German Revolutionary Program, Jihad, Muslims, newspapers, pamphlet, pan-Islamism, revolution, The Netherlands
Hindostan and El Dschihad were propaganda newspapers for South Asian, Caucasian, and North African prisoners of war in the Halbmondlager in Wünsdorf and the Weinberglager in Zossen. These periodicals…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Arabic, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, Hindi, Jihad, Language, newspapers, official documents, orientalism, orientalists, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, religion, revolution, Russian, Tatar, Urdu
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
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anti-colonialism, Dutch, essay, imperial strategy, internationalism, Neutrality, public intellectual, revolution, socialism, The Netherlands, writer
Francis Brett Young (1884-1954) was a young British doctor and aspiring author who volunteered for service with the Royal Army Medical Corps. As a medical officer, he served in the conquest of German…
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Letter written probably to Otto Stiehl, captain of the Halfmoon Camp in Wünsdorf. This forms part of Stiehl's photographic album and within it are complaints about English soldiers who claim to be…
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Themes: Letter; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-British, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Ireland, Irish, Letter, Non-Combatant, POW, pow-camp
Propaganda postcard promoting Dutch neutrality by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
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Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, 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
Dutch brochure advertising the French propaganda masterpiece Mères françaises, starring Sarah Bernhardt.
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Gender; Film
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anti-German, film propaganda, France, Neutrality, pro-French
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
The picture shows a number of people helping to store the hay in a barn. On the right, an elderly man supervises. On the left, a man, presumably a French prisoner of war, holds a scythe and watches…
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Captivity
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Labour, painting, Personal Encounters, postcard, POW, The Other
A catalogue listing those books available in the Netherlands in 1916 and books published in 1916-17, with an introduction by D. Smit about the Dutch book market during the first years of the war.
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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Dutch book market, The Netherlands
The above extract evokes the everyday milieu at the hospital in Aleppo where Sisir Sarbadhikari, after being taken as a POW, worked as a medical orderly in 1917. While the Turks are often described as…
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