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- Lottery ticket printed by the NSDAP in 1935. The ticket cost 1 Mark and the front has the German eagle and swastika. The back has a list of the terms of the lottery and also the list of available winnings. The lottery ticket is from the city of Munich.
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Allied propaganda leaflet dropped on German soldiers that tells them how close the war is to being over, providing the latest intelligence reports that state, American soldiers are occupying Luxembourg and that British troops are in Belgium. It warns the German soldiers that the only safe place for them is in captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. A framed image of the silhouette of a man with a dog by his side; in the background, in a lighter ink, is a man driving a horse-drawn cart; on either side of this image is the amount of the bill's worth: "Fünfzig/50 Pfennig"; below the image: "Ein sicherer Führer."
- Date Created:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 10 Marks monochrome German note. Dark green ink on olive green background; woman on right holding paddle in left hand and a palm branch pen decorated with two snakes.
- Date Created:
- 1906-10-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Election campaign leaflet for the Eiserne Front, a combination force of the Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands and the Deutsche Zentrumspartei for the 1932 Landtag elections in Preussen. The party's symbol, the Antifacist Circle, is located on the top right corner and was designed to easily cover the swastika symbol of the Nazi party. This leaflet tells citizens how the Eiserne Front is taking the necessary steps under the government of Franz von Papen and how the citizens need to maintain discipline.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Form provided to German citizens by the German police to fill out in order to register to display a signal light. These lights would then signify that the homes would accept evacuated or injured Germans who lost their homes during an air raid. The form itself asks for basic information from the host family, including number of children, religion, and also whether they are Aryan, mixed, or non-Aryan.
- Date Created:
- 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Campaign election leaflet for the NSDAP during the November 6, 1932 Reichstag election. It claims that Lords and Marxists were united together against the Nazis, spreading lies about them to the voters. It includes many proposals to the Prussian State Parliament, the Reichstag, and the City Council.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- This picture was included in the collection, "Deutschland erwacht. Werden, Kampf und Sieg der NSDAP (Germany awakens. Progress, Struggle, and Victory of the NSDAP). The photographs were included inside cigarette packages as a promotion and were collected by patrons. This collector's card shows members of the SA marching in Munich following the repeal of the uniform ban
- Date Created:
- 1933-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 50 Marks polychrome German note. Green and white color scheme; on left side of "50 Mark" is an image of a farmer holding a sickle, on the right side is a man holding a hammer. Behind the man with the hammer are two factory smoke stacks.
- Date Created:
- 1920-07-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. Beige background, black text, and red accents; in center image of Friedrich Schiller, German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright, in a circular frame; to the left and right of the center frame "50 Pfenning" is written the "50" is in red, and the "Pfenning" is in black; No 051255 in blue
- Date Created:
- 1921-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Pamphlet created to entice voters to vote "Yes" on April 10, 1938 for the annexation of Austria. It attempts to convince voters by demonstrating how Hitler is responsible for the creation of jobs, architectural improvements, enhancement in German lifestyle throughout Germany, and growth of the Third Reich since his takeover as Chancellor. Item viewed as a LUNA BookReader object.
- Date Created:
- 1938-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Achievement book provided to the girls of the Hitler Youth in order for them to keep a record of their work at home and their progress towards the completion of their Jungmädelprobe (Young Girl's Challenge). Included are the outlines and expectations of girls within the Hitler Youth. Item viewed as a LUNA BookReader object. and Die Jungmädelprobe -- Die Bedingungen der Jungmädelprobe -- Bestimmungen für die Jungmädelprobe -- Ausführungsbestimmungen für die Jungmädelprobe -- Bestätigung der Leistungen der JM. Probe -- Das Jungmädel-Leistungsabzeichen -- Bestimmungen und Abnahmeberechtigung für das Jungmädel-Leistungsabzeichen -- Gesorderte Leistungen im Heimabend -- Ausführungsbestimmungen zur sportlichen Leistungsprüfung -- Ausführungsbestimmungen zu den geforderten Leistungen auf Fahrt -- Nachweis über die Teilnahme an Fahrten -- Eintragungen über die Beteiligung am Dienst -- Nachweis über die Teilnahme an Lagern und Lehrgängen -- Leistungsbogen I -- Bestimmungen für das BDM -- Leistungsbuch I -- Ausführungsbestimmungen -- Vorgeschriebene Leistungen: -- Bescheinigung über Teilnahme an Lehrgängen: -- Leistungsbogen
- Date Created:
- 1938-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Election leaflet supporting Adolf Hitler for election in the 1932 Reichspresident election. It attacks the SPD and the KPD for accusing Hitler of being the political whip of social reaction, and blames the problems of the Weimar Republic on their leadership. It includes Hitler's motto, "For freedom, work and bread." A large portion of Hitler's speech from April 7, 1932 is included.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Campaign election leaflet in support of the NSDAP during the 1932 Reichstag election. It calls out to all public servants that now more than ever it is time to man the entrenchments. It tells them that they are standing at a crossroads and they must decide whether they want to go back or forward. It demands that all officials act and think only about the people for their own sake.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- The cover features the image of a young boy giving up his trumpet for the Führer in order to assist with the on going war effort. The article, "Luftschutz-Alarm im Zoo," explains the complications with so many different and dangerous animals in dealing with air-raid protection in the Leipzig zoo.
- Date Created:
- 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 1 Mark polychrome German note. Title and numbers are partly colored in with red ink; in the face of the bill is an image of a solders on horses in a field; in the distance is a town.
- Date Created:
- 1920-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 1 Mark polychrome German note. Top: image of the Wartburg. Bottom: image of Schloss Weissensee. Dividing the two images is a block of text; to the left of the text is an image of a rose and to the right an image of two fish, the Weisensee coat of arms.
- Date Created:
- 1921-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 1 thousand Marks polychrome German note. Pale green design background; print of Karl Radeck who participated in the Bolshevik Revolution; text: "Sowjed-Jude Radeck, Eisenbahnräuber, Arbeitermörder, Grösster Kapitalist in Rußland! Arbeiter, soll das Euer Führer sein?" (Soviet-Jew Radeck, train-robber, worker-murderer, Greatest Capitalist in Russia! Worker, should this be your leader?) This propaganda message was printed onto the paper later.
- Date Created:
- 1922-09-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Manuscript leaf was excised form a larger codex, cut in half and used to cover a 16th-century printed text; sewn on four stations with kettle stitches; spine exposed; each cover wraps around the first gathering., Single color, 1- to 2-line red pen-initials., Twelfth-century, German manuscript leaf which serves as a parchment cover for a near-complete 1566 printed text. View of open book with binding fragment visible, side 1., German protogothic bookhand, and Written in Germany or Switzerland in the first half of the 12th century. 2-line probably 2-word, illegible inscription on upper cover. Used to cover a complete copy (ff. 62) of Boltz, Valentin. Illuminirbüch, künstlich. Frankfurt?: s. n.], 1566. A guide to the preparation of dyes, pigments, inks etc., first published in 1549 (no records for 1549 editions and no records for original copies of 1566 edition exist on WorldCat). Two inscriptions at the bottom of f. 62v: one in contemporary script in ink, one in later script in lead, both illegible. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, July, 2009.
- Date Created:
- [1100 TO 1150]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Allied propaganda leaflet that was dropped on German troops. It provides factual information about the on going fighting in Italy near Rome. It supplies the troop information, for both the Allies and the Axis, as well as the numerical figures of soldiers in captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 75 Pfennig polychrome German note. Gray, orange, red, yellow, and black ink; text reads: "Dieser Schein wird nicht eingelöst! Der für diesen Schein bezahlte Nennwert gilt als einmaliger freiwilliger Beitrag!"
- Date Created:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. Gray, orange, red, yellow, and black ink; text reads: "Dieser Schein wird nicht eingelöst! Der für diesen Schein bezahlte Nennwert gilt als einmaliger freiwilliger Beitrag!"
- Date Created:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Allied propaganda leaflet that was dropped on German troops. The front shows two different images, German crosses in a battle cemetery and German POW's marching. The back informs German soldiers that the reconstruction of Germany is already taking place in the POW camps where they are teaching all sorts of subjects to prepare them for the war's end.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- The article "Paris 1871, Paris 1940" compares the victory and occupation of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and then during World War II. Major landmarks of Paris in the photos include, Place de la Concorde, Arc de Triomphe, and the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles.
- Date Created:
- 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- This article, "Der ewige Verrat," identified throughout history, moments where the Jews played the role of a traitor. Different countries, time periods, and events are covered, concluding in the assumption that the Jew is a parasite
- Date Created:
- 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 500 Marks polychrome German note. Light brown background; dark brown text. Only valid when embossed. This bill is embossed in the lower right-hand corner.
- Date Created:
- 1922-09-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 1 Mark polychrome German note. Gray, orange, red, yellow, and black ink; text reads: "Dieser Schein wird nicht eingelöst! Der für diesen Schein bezahlte Nennwert gilt als einmaliger freiwilliger Beitrag!"
- Date Created:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- A special supplemental provided by Der Zeitschrift that provides color images of the various flags of the German military branches. It includes the infantry, cavalry, navy, and the air force. In addition, it includes an image of the Reichskriegsflagge.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Cover of German periodical, which contains the article "Der 9. November in München," highlighting the events of the annual ceremonial march in honor of the first martyrs of National Socialism who were killed during the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, and, "Nach dem Mord in Paris," exhibits the story of Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat who was assassinated in Paris by the Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan.
- Date Created:
- 1938-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 75 Pfennig polychrome German note. Red, yellow, black, and gray ink; a soldier in uniform and cane looking at posters for events; to the left of the image of the soldier: "Ist dies der Dank des Vaterlandes?"; to the right of the image: "Täglich fest des edlen schieberstandes!"
- Date Created:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Election campaign leaflet printed by the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands aimed to get the vote of mothers and women during the November Reichstag elections. It tells the voter that everything will be different, if the women want it to be. Freedom, prosperity, and peace are possible when the women vote for the List 2 and their three arrows.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Allied propaganda leaflet dropped on German soldiers that tells them how close the war is to being over, providing the latest intelligence reports that state, American soldiers are occupying Luxembourg and that British troops are in Belgium. It warns the German soldiers that the only safe place for them is in captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Election leaflet supporting Adolf Hitler for election in the 1932 Reichspresident election. It appeals to various groups of voters including, social democrats, supporters of the Zentrum party, women and mothers, farmers, the middle class, civil servants, victims of the Great War, the unemployed, disabled persons, senior citizens, and any other Germans. It claims that Hitler understands their needs and that they should listen to the call and join the 11 million people army in a march for freedom, food, truth, and justice.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Allied propaganda leaflet dropped on German soldiers. It informs them of the truth about the Allied advances in Italy in the region between Rome and Napoli, the back of the leaflet provides a map of the region. The front includes statistics of troops and battalions in the region.
- Date Created:
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 100 Marks polychrome German note. Dark blue on lighter blue; Athena (with a helmet and hammer at her feet) holding onto the left side of a framed image of Germania (blond hair with oak leaves); Diana (apples, wheat sheaves, and corn at her feet) holding onto the right side of the frame. Large eagle in background. Number: Nr 4633686F.
- Date Created:
- 1908-02-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 5 Marks polychrome German note. Shades of blue; a dragon with smoke coming from its open mouth guarding a treasure; a bird sitting above the exhausted dragon; warning against falsification (punishment: no less than 2 years imprisonment)
- Date Created:
- 1904-10-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Contemporary brown leather boards; two concentric double blind-ruled borders, filled with blind-stamped shell and flower ornaments; diapered center panel, lozenges of which contain blind-stamped flower and eagle ornaments; brass and leather strap-and-pin fastener; front and back pastedowns are vellum leaves; engraving of a saint’s deathbed scene removed from another text, and affixed to front pastedown. In a green cloth clamshell box, with green leather spine., Front leather cover of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Cover shows a brass and leather strap-and-pin faster and stamped ornamentation., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1469]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Photographer Hugo Pfeiffer of Itzehoe, Germany captures a Russian prisoner near Leningrad in September 1941. The caption on the back provided by Pfeiffer states, "Ich bin ein Jüd!! (I am a Jew!!)" Black and white photograph. Handwritten on back of picture: Vor Leningrad Sept. '41, Russ. Gefangener; Ich bin ein Jüd!! Stamped: Hugo Pfeiffer
- Date Created:
- 1941-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Election leaflet supporting Ernst Thälmann (KPD) for the 1932 Reichspresident election. It calls out to the young worker to support the KPD, which they promise can provide work, bread, and freedom. It suggests that they join the battle by joining the ranks of the communist youth association.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- A special supplemental provided by Der Zeitschrift that provides color images of the various aspects of the uniforms that members of the German Luftwaffee wore. Amongst them are arms colors, insignias, medals, letters on epaulets, and badges for special service positions.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Allied propaganda leaflet dropped on German soldiers during the Lower and Upper Silesian Offensives. It encourages them to give up in Italy since the Russians have already advanced and that it was only a matter of time until Germany surrenders.
- Date Created:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- The four-page article "Jews among themselves," provides a photojournalistic image of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland. The horrific conditions of the ghetto are not displayed however, and instead the author focuses on the reasons and justifications for the Jews being separated.
- Date Created:
- 1941-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Marginalia in different hands in German, Contemporary brown leather boards; two concentric double blind-ruled borders, filled with blind-stamped shell and flower ornaments; diapered center panel, lozenges containing blind-stamped flower and eagle ornaments; brass and leather strap-and-pin fastener; front and back pastedowns are parchment leaves; engraving of a saint’s deathbed scene removed from another text and affixed to front pastedown. In a green cloth clamshell box, with green leather spine., Text in gothic liturgical book hand in black ink, lightly ruled in brown, with first and last one or two horizontal rules extending to edge of leaf; prickings visible along fore-edge of leaves; 18 lines per page; headings, superscript corrections, and ceremonial instructions in red; sentence initials touched in red; alternating red and blue capitals; footnotes in German in brown, with sentences touched in red; catchwords in brown, circled in red., Manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery, probably in Nuremberg during the third quarter of the 15th century, possibly between 1450 and 1469. The compilation of liturgies and prayers includes the Communion for the sick; Extreme Unction to be offered in the death of a sister; the Mass for the dead; various litanies of saints, with multiple references to St. Dominic, and local German saints such as St. Cunegund (whose relics are in Bamberg); St. Heinrich (Henry II, husband of Cunegund, also of Bamberg); and St. Sebald (patron saint of Nuremberg). Also included are diagrams in lower margins, written in German, outlining the stages of liturgical processions in the nunnery. Rubrics refer to “swester”, and Latin prayers are written in the feminine case., Gothic liturgical book hand, Chant music included throughout test; music arranged on red 4-line staves with square notation in black; Latin words., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1469]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Election leaflet supporting Adolf Hitler for election in the 1932 Reichspresident election. It attacks the SPD and the KPD for accusing Hitler of being the political whip of social reaction, and blames the problems of the Weimar Republic on their leadership. It includes Hitler's motto, "For freedom, work and bread." A large portion of Hitler's speech from April 7, 1932 is included.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 25 Pfennig polychrome German note. Blue background color; oval image of a ship in the Elbe harbor.
- Date Created:
- 1920-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Election campaign leaflet in support of the Berlin Communist party during the 1932 Landtag elections. It calls on all workers to form a front against Franz von Papen and join in the battle against his fascist government. In order to create more jobs it ensures that voters need to support KPD.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 25 Pfennig polychrome German note. Light blue checkered background; No 60945; bill is valid until October 1, 1920.
- Date Created:
- 1920-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 50 thousand Marks polychrome German note. Black ink on white paper; image of Mayor Brauweiler in upper left corner; on the right side is a green watermark with red embedded fibers. Portrait in this picture is a copy of the work "Arnold von Brauweiler" in 1535 by Bartholomäus Bruyn.
- Date Created:
- 1922-11-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Campaign election leaflet in support of the NSDAP during the 1932 Reichstag election. It calls out to all public servants that now more than ever it is time to man the entrenchments. It tells them that they are standing at a crossroads and they must decide whether they want to go back or forward. It demands that all officials act and think only about the people for their own sake.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. Orange background with black text
- Date Created:
- 1920-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections