World War II Propaganda Collections
424 items
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- Election leaflet supporting Ernst Thälmann (KPD) for the March 13, 1932 Reichspresident election. The front calls out to women through figures and drawings to recognize the discrepancy between state aid to working class families and affluent families under the leadership of Paul von Hindenburg. The back accuses Hindenburg of being the candidate of war and emergency decrees. It concludes urging voters to support the KPD, which promises peace, freedom, and bread.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. Brown text over orange background design; three red seals containing coats of arms.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Election leaflet supporting Ernst Thälmann (KPD) for the 1932 Reichspresident election. The front features Adolf Hitler, leader of the NSDAP, Paul Lobe and Franz Kunstler, leaders of the SPD, Eitel Fritz, leader of the Stahlhelm Bund der Frontsoldaten, and Paul von Hindenburg, leader of the Iron Front. It blames these opposing parties for failures of the Weimar Republic and promises bread, freedom, and socialism under Ernst Thälmann and the KPD.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Campaign election leaflet in support of Paul von Hindenburg for Reichspräsident during the April 10, 1932 run-off election. The title asks, "What brings on Hitler's dictatorship?" It mocks the voters, asking them what more could they lose in the Third Reich under the leadership of Hitler. It tells the voters that Hindenburg's intelligence, personality, stability, and authority is the best answer for the country. Item viewed as a LUNA BookReader object.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Campaign leaflet for the Nazi Party during the 1932 Landtag election. It includes a list of illusions that the previous governments had been presenting to the German people and that now it is the German citizens that are footing the bill. Therefore it is in their best interest to vote for the NSDAP party over the SPD or German Centre Party.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Nazi propaganda leaflet dropped on American troops serving in Italy. It discusses the conditions that will be occurring in the upcoming fall along the river Po. In order to help with the boredom of endless rains it supplies the troops puzzle questions to keep them busy. The questions remind the soldiers of home and of the poor conditions of the war.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 50 Pfennig monochrome German note. Orange design and image of ship.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 100 Francs polychrome Moroccan bill, with two watermarks of a lion (profile and frontal views). Large Arabic text states the name of the bank (Bank of Morocco) and the bill's denomination. Smaller Arabic text at bottom translates as: "Any person who changes or alters this currency will be punished with hard labor. Issued Second Jumadah 1343 [hijri date], 30 January 1924.
- Date Created:
- 1941-05-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 50 Pfennig monochrome German note. Light blue background with dark blue text and borders; "Die Einlösung dieses Scheins gewährleistet sie Stadtgemeinde."
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 75 Pfennig polychrome German note. Title and numbers are partly colored in with blue ink; in the face of the bill is an image of a battle scene.
- Date Created:
- 1920-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 200 thousand Marks polychrome German note. Orange background, black text; one hole cut out of the bill.
- Date Created:
- 1923-08-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- 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
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- Election leaflet supporting Ernst Thälmann (KPD) for election in the 1932 Reichspresident election. This leaflet was printed during the second round of voting, which took place April 10. It appealed to the members of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB) or to anyone in an organized union. It tells them to join in the march against capitalism and the imperialistic war by supporting Thälmann.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 100 billion Marks polychrome German note. Text in brown ink; no image; border along the edge of the bill.
- Date Created:
- 1923-10-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 100 thousand Marks polychrome German note. Dark brown on pink under print; portrait of Merchant Gisze; blue and red fibers embedded on right side. Portrait used for this image of Gisze taken from the work "Portrait of Georg Gisze of Danzig" in 1532, by Hans Holbein, and currently held in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1923-02-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- The cover highlights the FW 190 Würger of the German Luftwaffe. The top two photos of the inside page, show Hitler speaking with members of the Finnish government on Marshall Mannerheim's birthday, while in the second photo Hitler greets the Hungarian Foreign Minister Miklos Kallay. The bottom three photos are a pictorial obituary of Reinhard Heydrich,
- Date Created:
- 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- A Nazi ration card provided to households throughout Germany. This one is from the city of Hamburg and belonged to the family of Otto Lohauf, a two member household. The entries range from 1944 until 1947 and it was the ration card for commercial products. Item viewed as a LUNA BookReader object. and Zur Beachtung: Eintragungen erfolgen durch den Einzelhändler -- Einkauf eintragungspflichtiger Waren
- Date Created:
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 1000 Rubles polychrome Russian bill. Russian State Duma (Parliament) building appears in the center
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Appointment book provided to the boys of the Hitler Youth in order to guide them through the various expectations of the program. Included inside was a calendar of important dates for the young men. Note the list of "Die Gefallenen der Hitler Jugend (The casualties of the Hitler Youth)" idolizing the young men who were a sacrifice for their homeland. Item viewed as a LUNA BookReader object. and Die Gefallenen der Hitler-Jugend -- Dieses Merkbuch gehört: -- Einführung -- Kalender für 1938-1939 -- Die Geschichte der Jugend Adolf Hitlers -- Das Gesetz über die Hitler-Jugend -- Die Organisation des Jahrgangsweisen Aufbaues -- Die Organisation der HJ -- Auszug aus der HJ-Dienstordnung -- Gliederung der Jugendführung des Deutschen Reichs und der Reichsjugendführung der NSDAP -- Die Leistungsabzeichen der Hitler-Jugend -- Die Mitgliederentwicklung der Hitler-Jugend -- Die Sondereinheiten der Hitler-Jugend -- Gliederungsplan eines Bannes der Hitler-Jugend -- Der Gesundheitsdienst der Hitler-Jugend -- Aufgaben und Ausbildung der Gesundheitsdienst-Mädel -- Die grosse Dienstanzug des Hitlerjungen -- Der grosse Dienstanzug des Jungvolkjungen -- Die allgemeine Bundestracht der BDM- und Jungmädel -- Die Dienstrangabzeichen der Hitler-Jugend -- Die Bücher für die Hitler-Jugend -- Gliederung und Aufbau der Hitler-Jugend -- Anschriften der HJ-Dienststellen -- Inhaltsverzeichnis:
- Date Created:
- 1938-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. Colored image of Schleswig Schloss Gottorf in an oval shape; along the border of the bill: "Das Werk der Vater musste untergehen durch Gottes Gnad' wird Deutschland wieder auferstehen. Nur bleibt stets einig Brüder reichet euch die Hand schafft euch ein neues Vaterland" (Through God's grace Germany will rise again. Brothers, reach out each others hands, and establish a new Fatherland.)
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections