Ww1 posters

Faded ,forlorn the banners of our memories once held high now cast aside ,cast down , trodden into the dust marched over by legions of those who came after in ignorance ; Even the ghosts have depar…

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EVERY country used them — and, just like today’s advertising campaigns, getting the words exactly right on propaganda posters was vital.

This 1915 German propaganda map shows John Bull, a character commonly used to represent Britain, as a spider eating a French soldier. It was meant to convey the idea that WWI was primarily the fault of Britain’s imperial ambitions.

Second World War recruitment poster