The Grand Crusade
Advertisement for the ‘Grand Crusade’ against Bolshevism, calling on the French citizenry to take up arms alongside their European comrades comrades in the fight for European civilization.
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The New Europe is Undefeatable
Detailed cartographical propaganda poster from 1942, presenting ‘Fortress Europe’ and its immediate geostrategic situation in a favorable light. The poster presents Germany’s somewhat precarious hold over the European continent as an impenetrable bastion – a sentiment shared by many high-ranking Nazi officials at the time. Despite these beliefs and their best efforts however, the German…
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The Symbol of the French Volunteer Legion
Recruitment poster for the LVF highlighting the organization’s medievalist emblem.
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The Walloon Legion – Join Us!
Poster from occupied Belgium recruiting for the Walloon Legion, a Belgian Waffen-SS volunteer unit that would exhibit unequalled bravery and tenacity in the brutal fighting on the Eastern Front.
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Tricolor Legion
The ‘Tricolor Legion’ was an initiative by the French government under the auspices of Pierre Laval to co-opt the pre-existing ‘Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism’ as a professional military unit which would be at the disposal of the Vichy regime.
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Victory – The Grand Crusade Against Bolshevism
Propaganda poster from German-occupied France calling for a European crusade against Bolshevism. Note the lack of border between France and Germany.
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Victory – The Great European Crusade
Propaganda poster from German-occupied France, depicting a European knight riding forth valiantly, impaling a Bolshevik soldier propped up by figures representing Judeo-capitalism. Medieval romanticism and the imagery of knightly warriors are frequent motifs in nationalist aesthetics, embodying pre-enlightenment ideals of masculinity, nobility, tradition, and martial valor.
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We Want Ourselves a Country
“Vi vil oss et land” (lit. ‘We want ourselves a country’) is a well-known nationalist slogan in Norway, derived from a poem by Per Sivle.
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What Noway Was
A Norwegian poster calling on its citizens to each fulfill their duty in restoring their nation’s past glory.
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With Your Comrades and the SS, You Shall Prevail!
A recruitment poster from occupied France calling on its inhabitants to join the Waffen-SS alongside their fellow European comrades.
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