Favourite Propagnada Posters?

rich1874

Anyone got some cool or favourite propaganda posters? I found this one today.


The Translation reads 'The Fiend seeks the Light, So Light's Out!'.
Encouraging civilians to follow the blackout laws.
I think the artwork is very, very cool.

FiSe

Yes it is nice and I bet everyone would keep the lights off, especially when that RAF plane looks like Heinkel 111

Morlar

rich1874 wrote: »

Anyone got some cool or favourite propaganda posters? I found this one today.


The Translation reads 'The Fiend seeks the Light, So Light's Out!'.
Encouraging civilians to follow the blackout laws.
I think the artwork is very, very cool.

That is a classic. There is an original of that one in the IWM in London.

A lot of the German 'quote' wartime propaganda/morale posters were quite effective too, just a paragraph of text on a plain background containing quotes from Goebbels or Hitler. I have a couple at home somewhere, they were very effective imo.

The SS foreign recruitment ones were particularly well done too ie posters for dutch ss volunteers, or Nordic ones. The design of them was extremely impressive. One of my favourite propaganda designs was not a wartime one but a Reichsparteitag poster from 1934, also issued as a postcard of which I own a copy;

Fuinseog

rich1874 wrote: »

Anyone got some cool or favourite propaganda posters? I found this one today.


The Translation reads 'The Fiend seeks the Light, So Light's Out!'.
Encouraging civilians to follow the blackout laws.
I think the artwork is very, very cool.

i think a more accurate translation would be 'the enemy sees your light! Blackout!

marcsignal

rich1874 wrote: »

Anyone got some cool or favourite propaganda posters? I found this one today.


The Translation reads 'The Fiend seeks the Light, So Light's Out!'.
Encouraging civilians to follow the blackout laws.
I think the artwork is very, very cool.

Great Poster ! I put that on a T-Shirt a few years ago, one of my favourites too

here's another one I like



and this



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rich1874

Fuinseog wrote: »

i think a more accurate translation would be 'the enemy sees your light! Blackout!

A hair very well split. Anyway since you didn't put a poster on i'll just put another.

This is a funnier one.

rich1874

What does this poster mean?

Morlar

Keep mum means to keep quiet, she is not so dumb means she is a German agent and the allied officers she is with should not say anything that could be helpful to the other side.

Morlar

Here are another couple of designs, these are postcards not posters but similair propaganda tactics were used here too.

Germany breaking the shackles of the Treaty of Versailles



Nuremberg Reichsparteitag 1937



Nuremberg Reichsparteitag 1938

surripere

The Waffen SS recruitment posters were powerful and i'd imagine very effective.

Tabnabs

Is a classic on many levels




The US navy always had very camp looking posters...


So politically incorrect today!

jam_mac_jam

jam_mac_jam

I love the really cheesy ones

Mahatma coat

I have that one and the Waffen SS recruitment poster above framed at home.

gizmo555

Tabnabs

Am currently enjoying some old Carl Giles cartoons from the 40's

bealbocht

marcsignal wrote: »

here's another one I like



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I love that one, have seen it before.
The translation, if I remember correctly reads

"Queens of the Waffen"

I assume, it loses a little in translation , hee hee hee.

Dr Strange

bealbocht wrote: »

I love that one, have seen it before.
The translation, if I remember correctly reads

"Queens of the Waffen"

I assume, it loses a little in translation , hee hee hee.

It is actually a recruitment poster for the infantry. It is part of a song of the time "Infanterie - Du bist die Groesste aller Waffen". Waffen, although translated as as weapon/weapons here means the different army "categories" such as infantry, artillery, cavalry, air force, navy etc... So it makes out the infantry to be the best choice if you want to serve in the Wehrmacht (or any army for that matter).

BlackEdelweiss

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citizen_p

this was posted on the last page...orig photo
part of a photoseries
back says no. 58 strongly exagerated(out dated literally) enemy propaganda

neilled

Dyflin wrote: »

So politically incorrect today!

Naoko Shibusawa's "America's Geisha Ally" is an interesting read. It explores how the US had to go from images such as the one portrayed above, to a much more positive image of the Japanese, primarily through the use of images and articles about women and children and the portrayal of the Japanese people as politically immature teenagers who with the "correct" tutelage could become a "mature" democracy with western values.

Donny5

Preusse wrote: »

It is actually a recruitment poster for the infantry. It is part of a song of the time "Infanterie - Du bist die Groesste aller Waffen". Waffen, although translated as as weapon/weapons here means the different army "categories" such as infantry, artillery, cavalry, air force, navy etc... So it makes out the infantry to be the best choice if you want to serve in the Wehrmacht (or any army for that matter).

So Waffen means corps in this instance?

citizen_p

waffen means armed or arms... as in wepons
armed as in armed forces
waffen ss = armed ss

Dr Strange

Mousey- wrote: »

waffen means armed or arms... as in wepons
armed as in armed forces
waffen ss = armed ss

Donny5 wrote: »

So Waffen means corps in this instance?

Mousey is correct, too, but in this instance it means something like corps, yes. It can be tricky sometimes if German isn't your first language and you have to go by the different meanings attached to one word alone.

Bears and Vodka

rich1874 wrote: »

A hair very well split. Anyway since you didn't put a poster on i'll just put another.

This is a funnier one.

Looks modern Photoshop.. those kinda catchy graphics and phrases wouldn't be allowed on a poster back then.

Dr Strange

subz3r0 wrote: »

Looks modern Photoshop.. those kinda catchy graphics and phrases wouldn't be allowed on a poster back then.

I agree, the "cartoon" doesn't look like what would have been produced at the time. Very modern compared to the 40s.

Lex87

Here is my favorite!
Does anyone know a good place to get these types of posters?
I've been buying framed posters of those old adverts by Toulouse and Mucha. Would love to ad some of these to my collection.

Cheers
Lex

Morlar

This place here does reproduction of allied wartime propaganda posters

http://www.vintageposterworks.com/

You also see them on ebay from time to time. The originals still pop up for sale but obviously more expensive, the most expensive ones I have seen are SS foreigh recruitment posters. Early nsdap posters can be very expensive too.

Also this american company do some Irish WWI ones - http://www.emerald-isle-gifts.com/irish-historical-pictures/irish-propaganda-posters-mounted.asp

Lex87

I'll check them out !!!
Thanks for the information!!

Cheers
Lex

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A good site for Propaganda Posters is Here