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Hindostan and El Dschihad

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
Tags: 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

The Memoir of a West Indian Padre, 'From the Islands of the Sea'

The published account of a padre, Alfred Horner, who served with the 9th Battalion of the British West Indies Regiment, based on his diary and articles written for the Nassau Tribune. It was published…

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Themes: Race; Mobility; Memoirs
Tags: Colonial, France, Great-Britain, Journey, Memory, Non-Combatant, Priest, Race, West Indies

Photo album by British soldier stationed in Egypt

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
Tags: Egypt, Indian Army, Labour, Photograph

Poem 'When I go from hence'

'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

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

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

Magazine article on the Egyptian Labour Corps

Magazine article combining a narrative of service for the British Empire with the First World War.

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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Mobility; Memoirs
Tags: Africa, Egypt, Empire, Labour, Magazine, Memory, Propaganda, Racism

Drawing of a horse and mule sale in Belgium after the war

This is a drawing of a market scene in a Belgian town. It shows Australian soldiers involved in a horse and mule sale, which is taking place in a marketplace full of civilians, children, and animals.…

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Theme: Mobility
Tags: Anzac, Australia, Civilians, Drawing, France

Photograph of unidentified Australian and French colonial soldiers, Vignacourt, France

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
Tags: Allies, Australia, Colonial soldiers, France, Soldiers

Photo album, Halfmoon Camp, Wünsdorf

The album contains around 40 vintage print photographs taken by Hans Schmidt in the Halfmoon Camp in 1917. They depict daily life in the propaganda camp, such as class hours, craftmen in the workshop,…

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Themes: Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Craft, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Labour, Music, Muslims, Personal Encounters, POW, pow-camp

People who stayed at home and prisoners of war harvesting the hay

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
Tags: Labour, painting, Personal Encounters, postcard, POW, The Other

Nurse Burton's Autograph Book with West Indian Poetry

The autograph book of a Nurse Burton who served at Seaford Hospital in Sussex (pictured). The book includes entries by the West Indian patients whom she looked after, along with a sketch of the…

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Themes: Race; Poem; Photograph; Gender

The East and the War

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
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, Egypt, German Revolutionary Program, internationalism, Netherlands, newspapers, pro-German, Propaganda

German film propaganda

German advertisement for Messter-Film GmbH, which was part of the government-sponsored Ufa concern. The advertisement was published in the Dutch film magazine De Bioscoop in early 1918.

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Film
Tags: film propaganda, Germany, Neutrality, Race, The Netherlands

Weinberg Camp near Zossen

The first picture shows the visit of an Ottoman-German delegation to the Halbmondlager. The gangways are decorated with conifer wood and the buildings with various Ottoman and German flags. The mosque…

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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, pan-Islamism, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda

The Battle of Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks

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
Tags: film propaganda, militarism

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

Der Neue Orient (The New Orient). Monthly newspaper on the political, economic, and spiritual life in the whole East

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
Tags: German Revolutionary Program, imperial strategy, Jihad, Language, mobilisation, newspapers, orientalism, orientalists, pan-Islamism, pow-camp, Propaganda

Photograph from German East African Campaign

This private photograph comes from an album of a British soldier who served in the East African campaign. It depicts a local civilian being held by an Indian sepoy for the duration of the photograph.…

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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility

From one of our Muslim prison camps. Dolce far niente in the sunshine

The photo shows a group of North African prisoners of war, two prisoners of unknown origin, and an officer, all in front of barracks. The prisoners are arranged in a way that shows them to be…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: anti-colonialism, anti-French, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, Jihad, Muslims, Personal Encounters, Photograph, postcard, Propaganda, The Other

'Camp Weinberg near Zossen' and 'Zossen 1914-17'

The first picture shows the inauguration of the Tatar memorial stone in the Tatar section of the cemetery in Zehrensdorf. Prisoners from both propaganda camps attended the ceremony, as well as Ottoman…

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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, mobilisation, orientalism, pan-Islamism, Photograph, postcard, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, religion