French collaborationist propaganda poster collection

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Here's how they lie! Anti-British propaganda poster issued in occupied France
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513587
- English
- overall: Height: 24.375 inches (61.913 cm) | Width: 34.375 inches (87.313 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Anti-British propaganda poster issued in occupied France with text explaining that the photographic images and newspaper print have been altered by the British for their propaganda purposes
10.000 Reichsmark reward! Talboom and Lelong / 200.000 francs reward Reward poster for suspected killers of German security police
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513592
- English
- overall: Height: 31.625 inches (80.328 cm) | Width: 44.000 inches (111.76 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Wanted poster offering a reward for the capture of those responsible for the murder of two German security police in Tournai, Belgium. It was issued by the German military commanders of France, von Stulpnagel, and Belgium and northern France, von Falkenhausen. There are photos and descriptions of the two suspects, Henry Talboom (1919-2005) and Robert Lelong (1919-1941), members of the Belgian resistance group Phalange Blanche. Less than two weeks later, Lelong shot himself rather than be captured; Talboom escaped to Switzerland. Nazi Germany conquered Belgium and France in May-June 1940 and...
Notice / Judgment of the court martial, Raymond Gandon and Eric-Louis Text only propaganda poster anouncing the execution of French communists
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513593
- English
- overall: Height: 29.875 inches (75.883 cm) | Width: 44.125 inches (112.078 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
French/German wartime broadside announcing the execution of Gandon and Texier for their Communist activity.
Notice / Judgment of the court martial Broadside announcing the execution of a French saboteur in German occupied France
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513594
- English
- overall: Height: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) | Width: 34.000 inches (86.36 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Text only propaganda poster issued in German occupied France announcing the execution of Louis Berrier from Erne in the Calados for having corresponded with the English by carrier pigeon.
Notice / Judgment of the court martial Broadside announcing the execution of Jean-Louis Madec for sabotage in German occupied France
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513595
- English
- overall: Height: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm) | Width: 35.625 inches (90.488 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Poster announcing the execution of Jean-Louis Madec, a Frenchman, for having severed a telephone cable belonging to the German Army.
Text only red poster announcing the execution of French hostages after the assassination of a German officer
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513596
- English
- overall: Height: 29.750 inches (75.565 cm) | Width: 43.875 inches (111.443 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Broadside on red paper announcing the execution of hostages held by the Germans in retaliation for the assassination of a local German military commander, Hotz, on October 20, 1941, in Nantes, France, by resistance fighters. A reward of 15,000 francs was offered for information leading to the capture of the resistance fighters. This event was called Les Fusilles de Chateaubriant. In revenge for the assassination, the Germans rounded up 100 men from surrounding villages and threatened to execute all of the hostages if the persons who committed the crime were not found. The hostages were inte...
Text only poster annoucing the execution of French hostages by the German occupation authorities
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513597
- English
- overall: Height: 30.250 inches (76.835 cm) | Width: 43.500 inches (110.49 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Broadside on yellow paper announcing that 50 hostages have been executed and that more will be executed if those guilty of the crime have not been found by midnight on Ocotber 26, 1941. The Germans executed the hostages in retaliation for the assassination of a local German military commander, Hotz, on October 20, 1941, in Nantes, France, by resistance fighters. A reward of 15,000 francs was offered for information leading to the capture of the resistance fighters. This event was called Les Fusilles de Chateaubriant. In revenge for the assassination, the Germans rounded up 100 men from surr...
People of France: look at this map and think! Propaganda poster warning of the British threat to French territory
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513598
- English
- 1940
- overall: Height: 23.625 inches (60.008 cm) | Width: 31.375 inches (79.693 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Poster displaying a map marked with places where the British have taken over territory previously under French control.
La Dingaullite (a shameful disease) French propaganda poster mocking supporters of Charles de Gaulle
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513599
- English
- overall: Height: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm) | Width: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Poster with a 9 panel color comic mocking supporters of Charles de Gaulle. It imitates posters that were hung in doctor's offices and hospitals informing the public about contagious diseases.
The tall tales ... always come from the same nest Vichy produced poster denouncing Free French propaganda
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513601
- English
- 1941
- overall: Height: 46.750 inches (118.745 cm) | Width: 31.625 inches (80.328 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Vichy France propaganda poster featuring a bird with caricatured Jewish features carrying banners that read : "The English, our good friends," "The Germans take everything we've got," and "We control the seas," and "Vive de Gaulle."
His last hope... "The Blockade" Anti-British propaganda poster featuring Winston Churchill looming above a mother and child
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513602
- English
- overall: Height: 46.625 inches (118.428 cm) | Width: 31.625 inches (80.328 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Anti-British propaganda poster showing a hungry, pregnant mother and child in France while Winston Churchill stands idly by. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. Germany invaded France in May 1940. In June, Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain signed an armistice which gave the Germans control of northern and western France, including Paris. The Germans used the industrial and agricultural areas of the occupied zone to produce goods primarily for Germany and the war effort, with the remainder going to the French publ...
With de Gaulle, you will not catch anything Battle of Dakar poster featuring a caricature of Churchill fishing with De Gaulle as bait
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513603
- English
- 1940
- overall: Height: 47.250 inches (120.015 cm) | Width: 31.500 inches (80.01 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Propaganda poster referencing the Battle of Dakar in 1940 in which British and Free French forces under Charles de Gaulle fought the forces of the Vichy government of France in Senegal.
Leave us in Peace! Pro-German propaganda poster warning of threats against France
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513604
- English
- 1941
- overall: Height: 45.500 inches (115.57 cm) | Width: 31.500 inches (80.01 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Allegorical pro-German propaganda poster depicting France under attack by hostile, foreign elements allied with the Françaises Libres [Free French] movement. France is symbolized by a couple caring for the land, representing the safety and stability of France. They are threatened by three wolves labelled Freemasonry, Jews, and de Gaulle, supported by Lies, a three-headed snake, who seek to stop the regeneration of France. France was occupied by Nazi Germany from June 1940- fall 1944. The Free French were those who sought to continue the war against Germany even though France had surrendered...