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“While searching for images to illustrate my Wartime article, I came across this German propaganda poster from 1918. It ultimately didn’t make the cut but I think it’s very interesting. The seaplane soaring into the top left of the poster is a Friedrichshafen FF.33; in fact it is the very one which scouted for the raider Wolf during its voyage into Australasian waters in 1917, Wölfchen (‘Little wolf’ or rather ‘Wolf’s cub’). But what about the two people in the lower right, cowering in fear before the swooping aeroplane? They appear to be stereotypical and somewhat racist images of Africans, or possibly Papuans. I suspect the latter…”
1942 … loose lips! (UK) (by x-ray delta one)
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Suffrage Propaganda
1910 propaganda
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propaganda from manufacturer and WWII Navy-contractor the Farrel-Birmingham Company
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Anti-Goldilocks propaganda tee by Ian Leino - - a new $10 tee on sale at Threadless.
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This one is from Germany and aims to persuade people to obey the black regulations as ‘Light means your death!’ Oddly, the four-engined bomber silhouetted against the night sky has stars in its roundels. So it’s either American — who very rarely did strategic bombing at night — or Soviet — who very rarely did strategic bombing. Why either of those would be chosen over the British, who were routinely called ‘night pirates’ and the like by Nazi propagandists, is hard to explain.
