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Offset Lithographic poster printed on faded white lightweight paper depicting a colored map of Eastern and Northern Europe. The map shows the German boundaries in 1914, 1915, and 1917 with a black dashed line, a dotted line, and a bold black line in comparison with the German Reich and its allies in red and German territorial conquests in red with light horizontal white lines. The Soviet Union is colored in green and Sweden and Switzerland are in yellow. Bodies of water are depicted in dark blue. The map also shows the names and former boundaries of the occupied nations in light black lines and Europe’s capital cities with large black dots. A large, rectangular white legend is in the top right corner. The poster has a white border with a large black text title across the top and bottom. The top left side has some minor water damage, small losses, and wrinkles along the edge. There is a horizontal yellow line across the bottom. backside, bottom right, handwritten, pencil : 11552
overall: Height: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm) | Width: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm)
Our advance in the East, Facts Against Lies German propaganda poster showing a colored map of Eastern and Northern Europe
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The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by David and Lucinda Pollack.
Propaganda map of Northern and Eastern Europe distributed by the National Propaganda Office of the Nazi Party showing previous German territorial boundaries compared with their military expansion as of 1941. The map shows German occupied territory in red overlaid with the German borders before and during WWI. The poster was published by the National Propaganda Office, which controlled the film, radio, theater, and press and chose what information to distribute to the public. By 1941, Germany had made alliances with Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, and Hungary and had conquered France, Norway, and every European nation in Eastern Europe. On June 22, 1941, Germany, with the support of its allies, invaded the Soviet Union, and by September, they had advanced past the city of Smolensk. The poster implies that information about German defeats from the Soviet Union and Britain are lies and presents Germany’s territorial expansion throughout Eastern Europe as evidence.