German Propaganda leafets

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Harry, these are great.

I have one or two to add, from Italy in 1945, but I need to unframe and scan them first.

Cheers, Ade.

[Panzer 3]

Hi Harry,
Worth waiting for they are great, dont see many of those these days thanks for showing us.
Dave.

[SteveR]

Great collection friend.
My uncles said they made great butt wipe.

[harry211]

Great collection friend.
My uncles said they made great butt wipe.

best use of them I would say...but glad some survived that unsavoury end :-)

[harry211]

Hi Harry, these are great.

I have one to add, from Italy in 1945, but I need to unframe and scan it first.

Cheers, Ade.

would love to see it Ade as the Italian campaign leaflets tend to be crackers!

[Adrian Stevenson]

I will scan it tomorrow.

What has awalys tickled me about it is the fact it is price marked 1/ (One Shilling).

I do agree with Steve: the content and paper quality is only good for using as loo roll

[harry211]

Another couple of German leaftets. The first is a small satirical anti-English magazine aimed at the French population. Produced in 1942 and entitled "Our Friends the English"

The second is a broadsheet paper size reproduction of Hitler's speech to the Reichstag in July 1940, rather ironically called a Last Appeal to Reason!!! Condition of this one is not great, but given it may have been chucked out the bomb doors of a Heinkel, it's not too bad

[Adrian Stevenson]

Here are the three items as promised.

I have owned these since the late 1980's when I bought them from a friend for a tenner. Sadly the condition is poor: the paper quality is terrible and someone had taken the dreaded sticky tape to them long before I got them.

Here is the first one with the one shilling price on the front. No idea on the thinking behind that? I can only guess they were trying to encourage British troops to pick them up trying to appeal to the "get something for free mentality"!

This one has a print date of March 1945. You can also see from the situation map, this is pretty late in the day, given the position of the frontline.

[Adrian Stevenson]

This one dates from February 1945. Nice colour pic of an Fallschirmjager with a wounded Tommy.

This tries to appeal to the notion that all soldiers are the same underneath the uniform they wear.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Final one, again from Feb 1945. The usual theme that tries to play on fear of Stalin's Russia....

Cheers, Ade.