French political poster collection

Identifier: irn515134
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515134

Acquisition

The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of posters produced in the 1940's in France with political content.

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1. English (7)
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1. United States (7)
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1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (7)

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Displaying items 1 to 7 of 7

Poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515135
- English
- overall: Height: 36.250 inches (92.075 cm) | Width: 25.500 inches (64.77 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515136
- English
- overall: Height: 48.250 inches (122.555 cm) | Width: 32.750 inches (83.185 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Confidence... Anti-British propaganda poster showing Churchill’s tentacles cut out of Africa and the Middle East
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515137
- English
- overall: Height: 47.250 inches (120.015 cm) | Width: 32.250 inches (81.915 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Propaganda poster in French showing German global victories against the British Empire. The poster depicts Winston Churchill’s caricatured, disembodied head with 12 tentacles, several bloody and truncated, reaching out over Africa and the Middle East, and extending past the border toward America and Asia. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. On June 22, 1940, France signed an armistice agreement by which the Germans would occupy the northern half of France. After the armistice and occupation, German authorities...
Poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515138
- English
- overall: Height: 46.750 inches (118.745 cm) | Width: 32.500 inches (82.55 cm) pictorial area: Height: 44.500 inches (113.03 cm) | Width: 30.000 inches (76.2 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515139
- English
- overall: Height: 48.190 inches (122.403 cm) | Width: 32.500 inches (82.55 cm) pictorial area: Height: 47.630 inches (120.98 cm) | Width: 30.500 inches (77.47 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515140
- English
- overall: Height: 47.600 inches (120.904 cm) | Width: 32.200 inches (81.788 cm) pictorial area: Height: 46.800 inches (118.872 cm) | Width: 31.500 inches (80.01 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515143
- English
- overall: Height: 21.500 inches (54.61 cm) | Width: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago

French political poster collection

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Confidence... Anti-British propaganda poster showing Churchill’s tentacles cut out of Africa and the Middle East

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