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In the course of World War 2, several billion leaflets were "shot" by the participating nations over the fronts and the hinterland, dropped by bombs and passed from hand to hand. World War 2 also raised this form of propaganda art to a new level, leaving clear traces in the visual language and typography of the 20th century; and also in the minds of children.
Peter Rühmkorf, then a 13-year-old schoolboy, had a small collection of the leaflets, which he hid. "After every air raid, immediately after the all-clear, my hunting instinct awoke feverishly". Only it was no child's play. When the British Royal Air Force dropped the leaflet with the following quote, its author - Sophie Scholl - had already been executed: "Shaken, our people stand before the downfall of the men of Stalingrad". Until today, these extraordinary testimonies of the war lay dormant in the archives. This book provides insight into the gruesome and fascinating world of these sheets - full-colour and lavishly designed. The 85 American, British, French, Soviet and German sheets collected range from the small poem on meagre paper to the elaborate, brightly coloured comic strip to advice on self-mutilation distributed in matchbooks. Incidentally, the sentence that blondes don't want cripples was commissioned by the Nazis from an agency where an art historian named Henri Nannen worked.
Peter Rühmkorf, then a 13-year-old schoolboy, had a small collection of the leaflets, which he hid. "After every air raid, immediately after the all-clear, my hunting instinct awoke feverishly". Only it was no child's play. When the British Royal Air Force dropped the leaflet with the following quote, its author - Sophie Scholl - had already been executed: "Shaken, our people stand before the downfall of the men of Stalingrad". Until today, these extraordinary testimonies of the war lay dormant in the archives. This book provides insight into the gruesome and fascinating world of these sheets - full-colour and lavishly designed. The 85 American, British, French, Soviet and German sheets collected range from the small poem on meagre paper to the elaborate, brightly coloured comic strip to advice on self-mutilation distributed in matchbooks. Incidentally, the sentence that blondes don't want cripples was commissioned by the Nazis from an agency where an art historian named Henri Nannen worked.
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- Books (first-hand)
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- Rauchhaus, Moritz/Roth, Tobias (Hrsg.)
- Title
- Feindflugblätter des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Eine kommentierte Sammlung amerikanischer, britischer, deutscher, französischer und sowjetischer Feindflugblätter aus der Sammlung der Staatsbibliothek Berlin
- Details
- Very many partly coloured illustrations 288 pp.
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