Germany defeated. 'Liberation Loan' 1918
Jules Abel Faivre (1867-1945), France
Jesus reproaches the Germans. "Thou shalt not kill"
"Is this the end?"
Jesus has deserted the Germans
An 1915 Italian poster showing German Kaiser Wilhelm 2
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"Austrian conquest of a Russian battery"
The Austrian poster shows soldiers and their weapons behind a barricade of Austrian coins. Text: Subscribe to the 7th War Loan, Vienna Commercial Bank.
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A British recruitment poster
'Blood and Iron' by Charles Ernest Butler.
The painting is dated 1916, two years after the events it depicts. Kaiser Wilhelm, on horseback with the Angel of Death at his shoulder, turns aside from leading his troops into further action. The response of the man on the ground is defiant but emasculated and Christ, too, is neutered, limited to the role of offering succour. In the background, the Belgian town of Louvain burns.
The work shows no obvious hero to resolve the chaos and destruction. Instead it calls out to the viewer to step forward, to take on the challenge of what looks like an Arthurian quest, and to defeat the foe.
In this work Butler depicts the horrors of war, not as a pacifist statement but rather to encourage the recruitment of men to fight the evil of German aggression, personified in the Kaiser. Although this was neither a commissioned painting nor authorised in any respect, it carries a strongly populist message about the war. It is part of a body of work that described German atrocities with an almost pornographic relish, both in attempting to motivate people to resist aggression, and to justify the Allied war effort.
Text: BBC
A Punch cartoon from 1915 depicting the stalemate on the Eastern Front
British navy recruitment poster
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It says,
"Niclolas! Nicholas! Dare you just get out of Moscow!. With the sabers we will make Russian salad out of you!"
"Germania" 1914. A painting by Freidrich August von Kaulbach
WHO WAS KAULBACH?
Son of the panter Friedrich von Kaulbach. He studied with is father in Hanover and in 1868 in Nürnberg with August von Kreling und Karl Raupp. In 1871 he copied the old masters in Dresden. In 1872 he moved to Munich, where he married and had a studio in the Schwantalerstrasse.
Following the advice of Lenbach he travelled to Italy in 1873-1874. Together with Gedon, Lenbach and Makart he went to Antwerpen during the Rubens year in 1877. He became popular in Munich after he painted the Schuetzenliesl" for a beer hall in Munich.
In 1882 he became a member of the academy in Berlin. He had started with genre pieces, but from 1883 onwards he specialised in portraits. During this time he visited Paris several times and saw the works of Gustave Courbet. In 1886 he was knighted by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria and he succeeded Karl von Piloty as the director of the academy in Munich.
In 1887-1889 Gabriel von Seidl built a city palace for him in Munich and in 1897 he married for the second time. His new wife was the Danish violinist Fride Scotta. In 1898 he portrayed wilhelm II. Among his friends were Lenbach, Von Stuck and Gulbransson.
In recent years his house in the small Bavarian village Ohlsdorf has opened as a museum.
This 1916 poster shows the German Emperor Kaiser Welhelm at the grave of a German soldier
It says, "Homeland . Have no fear."
"Faithful arms. Brotherhood"
Caption says" Hindenburg: So, you pointed Russian boys now bring the stolen pretty carefully not to Berlin to Petrograd!"
"The eight-headed-hydra". Germany and Austria fights its foes.
Wilhelm II: "Before God and history is my conscience is clear I have not wanted the war.." A 1915 poster
The Allies have taken a beating
Hindenburg prepares arms for Germany
Germany and Austria checkmate the Allies
"The European Balance 1914"
Taming the Russian bear
Jesus blesses the German army
"With full steam ahead, we are with you"
The Russian bear is washed
"Dear homeland, have no fear"
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A pre-WW1 Russian poster saying that Russian would give Germany (the figure is Kaiser Wilhelm 2) a good thrashing if it dared attacking Russia. The future turned out much differently.
German Emperor Wilhelm shown as a warmonger
A 1916 fund-raising poster
The Russian Czar Nicholas 2 the Peacemaker, lauded by Mother Russia
1914 Russian poster. The upper inscription reads "agreement". The uncertain Britannia (right) and Marianne (left) look to the determined Mother Russia (centre) to lead them in the coming war.
"The eye, not the bullet travels through the heart."
The German's shadow shows death
Mother Russia
An Italian propaganda poster. It says "He (Germany) thought he would make the bear (Russia) dance but the bear made him dance"
German atrocities in Poland, 1914-18
A 1914 Russian poster. Full of hot air and nothing else it seems in hindsight. Russia left the Great War in 1917.
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Quotes....
"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
--Otto von Bismarck
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--Mao Zedong
Quotes....
"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
--Otto von Bismarck
"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
--Winston Churchill
Quotes....
"In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers."
--August Bebel
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
--Voltaire
Quotes about War....
"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
---Otto von Bismarck
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"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
--Hermann Goering
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"To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy."
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"All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?"
--Emperor Hirohito
Jesus reproaches the Germans. "Thou shalt not kill"
"Is this the end?"
Jesus has deserted the Germans
An 1915 Italian poster showing German Kaiser Wilhelm 2
