Skip to main contentAustrian WW1 postcard: "Heartfelt Christmas greetings." Showing hanged Allied soldiers on a fir branch. 1914. : r/PropagandaPosters
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I think it’s meant to dismiss the British as unserious dilettantes. Which is ironic considering the British Army began the war as a professional, all volunteer force. Also, at the start of the war you would have been hard pressed to find many German soldiers with campaign experience, unlike the British.
Interesting to see the Brit in a red coat, given the switch to Khaki had happened in 1902. Guess 12 years wasn’t long enough to disconnect them from scarlet in the public consciousness.
I collect real photo postcards from WW1 mostly from the German side because German soldiers were allowed cameras. Only officers on the British side were allowed cameras, and they were the first ones “over the top”. I. E. They died first and often. Popular photo subjects: picking lice out of clothes and sitting on group outhouses reading the paper.
Given how many civilians the Germans and Austrians disembowelled and hanged in rural Serbia during WW1, this postcard would be considered tame by comparison.
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I wonder if this was considered edgy, even by the day's standards.
Intense image, what a find. I can’t imagine the context where this would be anything other than alarming to its recipient
Yeah I am much less forgiving of the central powers in WW1 having seen their propaganda up close. There's a cruel edge to it
British soldier going to war with a tennis racket?
I think it’s meant to dismiss the British as unserious dilettantes. Which is ironic considering the British Army began the war as a professional, all volunteer force. Also, at the start of the war you would have been hard pressed to find many German soldiers with campaign experience, unlike the British.
Side A: cruelty and mockery of the enemy
Side B: cruelty and mockery of the enemy
Bankers: fund both sides
Leaders: literally freaking cousins.
War: pointless and could be avoided
Interesting to see the Brit in a red coat, given the switch to Khaki had happened in 1902. Guess 12 years wasn’t long enough to disconnect them from scarlet in the public consciousness.
Americans still call them “red coats”, at least in some cases.
Red was still issued as standard "full dress" and "walking out dress" until 1914.
It reminds me https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/avdysh_oleg/14200066/2706125/2706125_original.jpg
Its Entente soldiers, the Allies werent a thing during WW1.
I collect real photo postcards from WW1 mostly from the German side because German soldiers were allowed cameras. Only officers on the British side were allowed cameras, and they were the first ones “over the top”. I. E. They died first and often. Popular photo subjects: picking lice out of clothes and sitting on group outhouses reading the paper.
Given how many civilians the Germans and Austrians disembowelled and hanged in rural Serbia during WW1, this postcard would be considered tame by comparison.
Oh my
Sure this is Austrian? That’s certainly a Prussian Iron Cross, with the black and white ribbon.