Victory – The Grand Crusade Against Bolshevism
Propaganda poster issued in German-occupied France calling for a coordinated continental strike against the Bolshevik threat in the east, with the respective nations of Europe represented by roundels. For many in Europe, Soviet communism presented an existential threat far greater than the Nazis. 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 dispute in Franco-German relations. being the ownership of Elsaß–Lothringen (Alsace–Lorraine), a region situated on the Rhine which both sides claimed since 1870. A formal settlement had yet to be reached at the time of this poster’s printing, and despite France’s surrender, Hitler deferred proclaiming the region’s re-annexation into the Reich to avoid a diplomatic row with the incumbent Vichy government.
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Propaganda poster issued in German-occupied France calling for a coordinated continental strike against the Bolshevik threat in the east, with the respective nations of Europe represented by roundels. For many in Europe, Soviet communism presented an existential threat far greater than the Nazis. 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 dispute in Franco-German relations. being the ownership of Elsaß–Lothringen (Alsace–Lorraine), a region situated on the Rhine which both sides claimed since 1870. A formal settlement had yet to be reached at the time of this poster’s printing, and despite France’s surrender, Hitler deferred proclaiming the region’s re-annexation into the Reich to avoid a diplomatic row with the incumbent Vichy government.
