Sources with the tag 'Propaganda'

Cover image: Die Woche - Bilder vom Tage, 11 January 1916

This cover image from Die Woche published on 11 January 1916 shows a sketch of Sheikh Salih al-Sharif al-Tunisi. He was a religious North African scholar who worked as a propagandist, advocating…

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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Intellectual Exchange
Tags: anti-colonialism, anti-French, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, Non-Combatant, orientalism, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, Personal Encounters, POW, Propaganda, religion

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

To the American People

Dutch manifesto of the Holland section of the League of Neutral States directed at American citizens in December 1916.

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-German, Neutrality, Pacifism, Propaganda, South Africa, The Netherlands, United States

’Culture brothers’ in the prison camp

The postcard is suggestive of the wide range of people fighting for the Allied armies. The mix of people - their uniforms, their skin tone, their facial expressions, and their postures - in front of a…

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Themes: Race; Postcard; Mobility; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: imperial strategy, orientalism, painting, postcard, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, Racism, The Other

'Pan-Germanism and the war, by H.J.P.A. Kiersch'

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
Tags: cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Germany, Propaganda, The Netherlands

Personal Information Form 325, Sound recording, Armenian-Georgian song

The voice of the Russian soldier Levon Altunov was recorded in a prisoner-of-war camp in Chemnitz on 16 June 1916. The recording, inventoried as PK 325, is of a song in Armenian that speaks of…

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Themes: Recording; Language; Captivity
Tags: Armenian, Colonial Troops, Folksong, imperial strategy, Mobility, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, Race, Sound Recording

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

Efforts for the liberation of Algeria and Tunisia: A convention in Berlin, convoked by Sheikh Salih al-Sharif

The photograph shows a group of men and one woman standing on a stairway in front of a facade. In the background, chandeliers are visible. Sheikh Salih al-Sharif is standing in the first row, second…

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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Photograph; Newspapers & Magazines; Mobility; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Algeria, anti-colonialism, anti-French, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, German Revolutionary Program, newspapers, Non-Combatant, pan-Islamism, Propaganda, Refugees

Five Arabic war songs by the famous war volunteer Fritz Klopfer

The document contains five songs in Arabic including a translation into German. The songs were performed by Hans Stumme (alias Fritz Klopfer) on 20 January 1915 on behalf of the Red Halfmoon…

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Themes: Religion; Poem; Language; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: anti-colonialism, Arabic, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Music, orientalism, orientalists, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda

If only you would've had me!

Propaganda postcard promoting Dutch neutrality by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.

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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
Tags: Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, 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

All or nothing

Propaganda postcard promoting Dutch neutrality, drawn by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.

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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard
Tags: Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, The Netherlands

Kitchener cigars

Telegram from the British Consulate in Rotterdam to the Foreign Office requesting 500 portraits of Lord Kitchener.

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Themes: Propaganda; Photograph; Neutrality
Tags: Neutrality, Propaganda

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

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

Letter from Hubert Montgomery to Alan Johnstone on anti-Allied propaganda in the Netherlands, 1916

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
Tags: cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Propaganda, Wellington House

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

Duitsche Lusitania en Tubantia-Penningen

Press excerpt, official letter, and newspaper clipping commenting on the issuance of two German medals commemorating the sinking of Lusitania and Tubantia.

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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality
Tags: Germany, Netherlands, Neutrality, Propaganda

Frenchmen, Belgians, Senegalese Tirailleurs, Zouaves, and Turkos captured near to Ypres

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
Tags: anti-French, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, imperial strategy, Photograph, postcard, POW, Propaganda

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

The Heroic Women

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
Tags: Allies, France, Gender, postcard, Propaganda, Race

The usurpation of Belgium by Lambertus Mokveld (advert)

Advertisement for De overweldiging van België by the war correspondent Lambertus Mokveld. It states that this is the first and only book by a trustworthy eyewitness of the German invasion on Belgium…

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality
Tags: Belgium, Dutch book market, Propaganda, The Netherlands

It won't be possible!

Propaganda postcard commenting on the British naval blockade, drawn by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.

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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard
Tags: Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, The Netherlands

'Who still talks about decadent France?'
Cartoon 'The Battle of Verdun'

Cartoon on the Battle of Verdun by Johan Braakensiek, published in the Dutch weekly De Amsterdammer, 5 March 1916. The cartoon shows France imagined as a powerful 'antique' woman, who stops an…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Gender
Tags: anti-German, cartoon, France, Gender, nationalism, Neutrality, pro-French, Propaganda, Race, The Netherlands

Extract from a German report on bookstores in the Netherlands

Two pages of a German report from 1918 describing the books on offer at bookstores located within the train station in The Hague.

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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
Tags: cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Propaganda, The Netherlands, Translation