England’s Schuld [England’s Shame]
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Nazi propaganda lambasting the colonial empire of the British.
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Description
This wildly offensive image was published as the color pictorial wrappers to a special 1939 edition of the Illustrierter Beobachter (a copy of which is included), which heavily criticized England for its treatment of subjects overseas and domestically, including Jews. The front cover features a stereotypical English explorer carrying a whip and lounging on a sedan chair carried aloft by racially charged representations of each corner of the British Empire.
The sheet unfolds to present a large map of England and neutral Ireland created by the Bibliographischen Instituts in Leipzig. The verso of the sheet includes a map of the North Sea with concentric circles indicating distance by air from the German coast (no doubt to highlight the proximity to Luftwaffe bombers). A second map presents the world on Mercator’s Projection and uses bright colors to compare the gigantic colonial empires of France and England to the modest overseas holdings of the German Empire.
An interesting and unfortunate example of the shameless hypocrisy employed by propaganda agents of the Third Reich.
Map Details
Publication Date: 1939
Author: Illustrierter Beobachter
Sheet Width (in): 21.6
Sheet Height (in): 29.4
Condition: B+
Condition Description: Moderate wear and discoloration along originally issued fold lines. Several closed tears along the outer edge of the sheet, each about 2", have been repaired on the verso with archival tape. A few small spots of separation remain at fold intersections. Good to very good condition overall. Includes the 48 pp. accompanying issue of the Illustrierten Beobachter that shows moderate wear along the fore-edge.
$245.00
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