Victory – The Grand Crusade Against Bolshevism
Propaganda poster issued in France calling for a coordinated European strike against the Bolshevik threat, with its respective nations represented by roundels. For many in Europe, Soviet communism presented an existential threat. Capitalizing on this, Germany would call upon their fellow Europeans in the territories they occupied for a ‘Crusade Against Communism’ to be carried out with same divine fervor that inspired the medieval crusades.
The border between Germany and France is distinctively absent to mask a longstanding contention in Franco-German relations: the ownership of Elsaß–Lothringen (Alsace–Lorraine), a region situated on the Rhine which both sides claimed since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. No formal settlement had yet been reached at the time of this poster’s printing, and despite France’s capitulation, Hitler avoided proclaiming the region’s re-annexation into the Reich to avoid a diplomatic row with the Vichy government.
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Propaganda poster issued in France calling for a coordinated European strike against the Bolshevik threat, with its respective nations represented by roundels. For many in Europe, Soviet communism presented an existential threat. Capitalizing on this, Germany would call upon their fellow Europeans in the territories they occupied for a ‘Crusade Against Communism’ to be carried out with same divine fervor that inspired the medieval crusades.
The border between Germany and France is distinctively absent to mask a longstanding contention in Franco-German relations: the ownership of Elsaß–Lothringen (Alsace–Lorraine), a region situated on the Rhine which both sides claimed since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. No formal settlement had yet been reached at the time of this poster’s printing, and despite France’s capitulation, Hitler avoided proclaiming the region’s re-annexation into the Reich to avoid a diplomatic row with the Vichy government.
