Die brennende Wunde Frankreichs [The Burning Wound of France]
- Title:
- Die brennende Wunde Frankreichs [The Burning Wound of France]
- Alternate Title:
- The Burning Wound of France
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Militärische Stelle des Auswärtigen Amtes (MAA) [Military Authority of the Foreign Office]
- Other Creators:
- Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), printer
- Date:
- 1918
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 2231.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2231_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1900 - 1919
- Subject:
- World War I
Politics & Government
Pictorial
Unusual Graphics/Text - Measurement:
- 67 x 50 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This poster was intended to reassure the German public in light of the massive casualties suffered during the Spring Offensive of 1918 — 230,000 in the months of March and April alone. The text begins, "A broad strip of destroyed territory extends like an enormous wound across Northeast France. Widespread collections of ruins, formerly flowering cities and villages, dead industrial plants, fields riven with iron in which the plough can no longer make a furrow!" http://barronmaps.com/products/die-brennende-wunde-frankreichs/, accessed March 21, 2016. After blaming Clemenceau and Lloyd George for the carnage, the poster continues in bold face to drive home the point that the German public should "thank our boys" because by fighting the war on French territory, "they protect you and your homes from the same fate.” Ibid.
The flames in Paris apparently refer to the shelling of that city by three massive Krupp cannons that were close enough to land some 300 shells between March and August 1918. Ibid.
For another defensive domestic German government poster from the same period, see ID #2452, "Deutschlands Schicksal in einem zukünftigen Kriege, wenn Belgien die Basis englischer Luftangriffe ist! [Germany's fate in a future war, if Belgium becomes a base for English air attacks!]" (1918).
For an English map of the same area using bright red to persuade the allied peoples of the German atrocities in France, see ID #1187, "The Invaded Country."
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- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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