Encontra-Se a Inglaterra em Apuros? Sim! Que Cada Qual Forme o Seu Juizo! [Is England in Trouble? Yes! You May Form Your Own Judgment!]
- Title:
- Encontra-Se a Inglaterra em Apuros? Sim! Que Cada Qual Forme o Seu Juizo! [Is England in Trouble? Yes! You May Form Your Own Judgment!]
- Alternate Title:
- Is England in Trouble? Yes!
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1941
- Date 2:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2358.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2358_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1940 - 1959
- Subject:
- Pictorial
World War II - Measurement:
- 38 x 59 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- Throughout World War II, the Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar engaged in what one author called a “complex balancing act” (Curtis 2016, 159), seeking through neutrality to protect his nation's long-standing and important alliance with Britain without accommodating the Nazis. This map of England “In Trouble” bears no date, author or publisher, but it was likely produced in Portugal by Nazi agents or supporters, probably in 1941, to showcase the German successes at the time.
The map is divided into two subjects, corresponding to the two text blocks under the title: “On the Island” (Na Ilha) and “The Battle of the Atlantic” (A Batalha no Atlântico). In the center is a map of England almost entirely obscured by pictorial images of the carnage wrought by The Blitz during the fall of 1940 and the spring of 1941. London, Southampton, Plymouth, Cardiff, Bristol, Coventry and Hull are singled out by name and illustration.
The six panels to the left and right show scenes of British warships, and cargo ships carrying supplies to Britain, destroyed at sea by German aircraft, heavy naval ships, submarines, torpedo boats and mines. Much of Germany’s greatest success of the Battle of the Atlantic was from the summer of 1940 into winter 1941. During this period - referred to as “the Happy Time” by U-boat crews - the allies had not yet devised tactics and intelligence that were later more effective against both surface and submarine attacks.
For another anonymous pro-German map in Portuguese, see ID #1305 (1942).
For a very similar propaganda map intended as part of an effort to counter a fierce resistance movement in the former Czechoslovakia by making it appear that ultimate German victory was inevitable, see ID #2401, “Shipping Capacity Decreases on All Oceans” (1942).
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- Image
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