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
Cartoon from a colonial newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië. The caption reads 'A difficult dilemma: it is impossible to push down and if he releases, it will crush him.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Film
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Propaganda, western front
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
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film propaganda, militarism, Neutrality
Special Soldiers Number of The Crisis, journal of the National Association of Colored People published in New York, June 1918. The journal was circulated widely, not only in the US, but also among…
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines
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Allies, Magazine, Race, Soldiers, United States
A series of postcards signed by Em. Dupuis (probably the French illustrator Emile Dupuis) portraying women from different Allied regions.
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Themes: Postcard; Gender
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Allies, France, Gender, postcard, Propaganda, Race
A postcard picturing German prisoners in Algiers. On the reverse are words printed in poor Dutch: 'One can see from the look of them that they have not suffered from their treatment' ('Men kan hat hem…
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Algeria, Camp, France, Germany, postcard, POWs, Propaganda, Soldiers
John Brown's personal photograph album, including photographs of Naga Hills tribesmen in traditional dress on the deck of HMS Kingstonian in the Mediterranean, en route from India to France (May…
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility
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Egypt, Indian Army, Labour, Photograph
This photograph depicts a group of Australian and allied soldiers, likely French colonial Zouave troops. It was taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier in Vignacourt, France, sometime during the…
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Themes: Race; Photograph
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Allies, Australia, Colonial soldiers, France, Soldiers
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
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
The three pictures show prisoners of war photographed by Otto Stiehl, who was assigned to the headquarters of both propaganda camps near Berlin.
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Personal Encounters, Photograph, POW, pow-camp, 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
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
This phonetically written letter by an Algerian prisoner of war is kept in the albums of Otto Stiehl. On the left it reads 'prizonier de gér 1 Bata 1 con nr 1093 Zosén Aleman'. On the right it…
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Themes: Postcard; Letter; Language; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, French, Halfmoon Camp, Letter, POW, pow-camp, western front
Open letters from the Egyptian revolutionary Dr Rifat to the German Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg published and commented on by an anonymous anti-colonial journalist in the Dutch-Indonesian weekly…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, Egypt, German Revolutionary Program, internationalism, Netherlands, newspapers, pro-German, Propaganda
Extract from a letter by a Dutch reader on the pro-Allied book Belgium and Germany: texts and documents by Henri Davignon. The Dutch translation of the book enjoyed immense popularity among a Dutch…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Letter; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Propaganda, Translation
'Jabar dine' ['When I go from hence'] is poem number 96 in the Indian poet and intellectual Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize winning collection of poems titled the Gitanjali. The British war poet…
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Themes: Poem; Intellectual Exchange
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 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
Five photographs taken by the Alfieri Picture Service showing African, African American, and West Indian servicemen at the Coloured Soldiers and Sailors Club, London 1919. The images show that black…
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Themes: Race; Photograph
In 1914, a war journal titled Indian Ink: Splashes from Various Pens was launched in India, edited by Everard Digby and published and printed by Messrs Thacker, Spink and Co. in Calcutta. Published…
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines
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 special wartime edition of the journal Indian Review, described by the Madras-based editor G. A. Natesan as 'A comprehensive and authentic account of the War with numerous illustrations, portraits,…
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Theme: Newspapers & Magazines
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
Propaganda postcard promoting Dutch neutrality, drawn by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard
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Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, The Netherlands