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Poster issued by the Germanic SS of Norway depicting a soldier of the SS clad in chainmail atop a Viking longship. Typical fascist imagery drawing elements from the past which are incorporated into contemporary narratives about the historical continuity of a modern people’s existence.
The Battle of Stiklestad in 1030 is considered one of the most famous battles from Norwegian history, holding great significance as part of the country’s national myth. A medieval warrior from the battle is likened to his modern day counterpart, a member of Norway’s fascist paramilitary.
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.
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…
Recruitment poster for the LVF highlighting the organization’s medievalist emblem.
The Völkisch movement was a Pan-Germanic ethnonationalist and spiritual movement that flourished during the interwar period. Poster calling for an pre-electoral assembly that was held jusy two days after Hitler’s sentencing in 1924.
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.
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.
A recruitment poster c. 1929 for the paramilitary veteran’s organization Der Stahlehm. Eyes obscured by the shadow cast by his helmet, the soldier’s austere gaze is set upon the reader. To the backdrop of the Imperial German tricolor, the reader is posed the simple question of “And you?”, urging Germany’s citizens to do their part for their Fatherland.
Propaganda poster from German-occupied France calling for a European crusade against Bolshevism. Note the lack of border between France and Germany.
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.