WW2 Posters & Propaganda Art

Discussion in 'Research Material' started by Hawkeye90, Jun 16, 2006.

  1. Hawkeye90

    Hawkeye90 Senior Member

  2. ErikH

    ErikH Senior Member

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  3. T-34

    T-34 Discharged - Nazi

    erikh and hawkeye, at this point you seem to be winning...
    but i'll see what else i can do.
     

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  4. Owen

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  5. Kitty

    Kitty Very Senior Member

  6. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

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    Glenn Grohe, artist. Office of Emergency Management. 1942. 40 x 29. The public survey conducted by the Office of Facts and Figures in 1942 revealed people misunderstood this poster. Some understood the stylized helmet of a German soldier to represent the Liberty Bell, while other factory workers mistakenly believed "he" to be the "boss." To control the form of war messages, the government created the U.S. Office of War Information in June 1942 to review and approve the design and distribution of government war posters.

    Does that explain it Kitty?
     
  7. Zoya

    Zoya Partisan

    There is a fantastic collection of Soviet military posters, both WWI & II to be found here: Museum of RUSSIAN POSTER - Plakaty.Ru. Posters, history of poster art / Posters / Military

    Some egs:

    http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachments/general/8323d1208199385-great-soviet-military-posters-1835-jpg

    Motherland Calls!

    http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachments/general/8324d1208199582-great-soviet-military-posters-1254-jpg

    Death to the Killers of Children
     

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  8. cool, I really like those proganda posters, I havea few U.S posters at home.
     
  9. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    You cant beat the Sovs for good old Propaganda posters!! Well done Zoya!
     
  10. Zoya

    Zoya Partisan

    More Soviet posters here: SovMusic.ru - Soviet posters

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    For blood and tears of our children - death to the fascist invaders!

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    Mothers of the World, fight for peace!
     
  11. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Some very nice ones here:
    Graphic Witness: visual arts & social commentary

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    And this one's pleasing:
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    Interestingly (if you like that kind of thing ;)), it appears to show the rather uncommon Neubaufahrzeug representing the Fascist aggressor's tank. Perhaps from reference material left over from the pre-war Soviet/Nazi cooperation in armour development.
     
  12. Zoya

    Zoya Partisan

    Great site here: A Soviet Poster A Day

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    http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachments/general/8321d1208198988-great-soviet-military-posters-brest-jpg

    I like this one: Glory to the Heroes of Brest-Litovsk!

    This next one has a very interesting commentary:

    http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachments/general/8322d1208199013-great-soviet-military-posters-father_kill-jpg

    Father, kill the German!
    Nesterova, 1942

    In a couple of weeks we will be in Moscow. I will wipe this damned city off the face of the earth, I will dig an artificial lake on its place. The word “Moscow” will become extinct.

    Adolf Hitler about Moscow

    “Kill the German” – this a phrase from Ilya Ehrenburg’s article published in Red Star millitary newspaper in 1942. This article and leaflet based on the text is probably the most controversial piece of all Soviet WW2 propaganda.

    The article had several extracts from letters of dead German soldiers with description of violent treatment of Soviet prisoners. The article ended with a call to kill Germans, which quite resembled the Nazi anti-Jewish and anti-Soviet propaganda:


    “Now we understand the Germans are not human. Now the word “German” itself has become the most terrible curse. Let us not speak. Let us not be indignant. Let us kill. If you do not kill the German, the German will kill you. He will carry away your family, and torture them in his damned Germany. If you have killed one German, kill another. […] Do not count days. Do not count miles. Count your kills. Kill the German – that’s what your old mother calls for. Kill the German! – begs the child. Kill the German – cries the native land. Never miss. Never fail. Just kill!”

    Antony Beevor (a famous British historian and author of “Berlin - The Downfall. 1945” book) attributed Ehrenburg's message as a motivating factor for the violence against German civilians which according to his sources took place as Soviet troops advanced through Nazi occupied territory toward the end of the war - thus encountering a great deal of criticism in Russia. The Russian ambassador to the UK denounced the book as "lies" and "slander against the people who saved the world from Nazism." O.A. Rzheshevsky, a professor and President of the Russian Association of WWII Historians, has charged that Beevor is merely resurrecting the discredited and racist views of neo-Nazi historians, who depicted Soviet troops as subhuman "Asiatic hordes" (citation from Wikipedia).

    The blogger, Alexander Zakharov, is Russian incidentally.
     

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  13. Verrieres

    Verrieres no longer a member

    Hi,
    Just found this old thread and it reminded me of a school project my son did in his last year at primary school(Yes ..Primary School!!) His class were asked to bring in examples from all the waring nations posters that they could find on the internet,the kids found it all very interesting so before they are deleted from his old files forever here is a selection picked for their art work and not any political or national bias.

    Regards

    Verrieres
     

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  14. PsyWar.Org

    PsyWar.Org Archive monkey

  15. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

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    And for my friends on here in the Airborne :D
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  16. tovarisch

    tovarisch Discharged

    One of the finest, if not the finest, propaganda machines of all time.
    Here's some more posters for you.

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  17. tovarisch

    tovarisch Discharged

  18. tovarisch

    tovarisch Discharged

  19. tovarisch

    tovarisch Discharged

    Here's a couple I found that were dedicated to the opening of the Second front in 1944.

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  20. the war was not only fought on the battlefield but also on paper. some example of propaganda wallpapers of the 3rd reich. one of the most effective weapons in war:
     

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