The Symbol of the French Volunteer Legion
Recruitment poster for the LVF highlighting the organization’s medievalist emblem.
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The Völkisch Bloc
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.
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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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Uilenspiegel Calls You to the Waffen-SS
Flemish recruitment poster for the Waffen-SS featuring the character Tijl Uilenspiegel.
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Und Du?
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.
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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 the VNV for Our People
Propaganda poster by the Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (VNV), a catholic Flemish nationalist organization that sought secession from Belgium.
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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.