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Weslee Price Wootten: The face behind a famous World War II poster
When the war in Europe ended, the news flashed around Times Square. People danced in the streets. Strangers hugged and kissed. And New York model Weslee Price Wootten waited for word from her Kiwi sweetheart Noel D'Audney, who had enlisted in 1939 to became a Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot. Young American bride never imagined, that it would be her war contribution that would endure. Weslee D'Audney has been uncovered as the face of one of America's most famous wartime recruitment posters. "I'm probably the only person alive who remembers its creation."     [ stuff :: 2008-05-04 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

Rare anti-Nazi wartime poster becomes museum piece
Sam Weller is giving an anti-Nazi wartime poster to the Imperial War Museum after founding out it is very rare. He bought the Hungarian poster 15 years ago from a mystery man, for £10. The arresting image shows a Nazi jackboot with its hobnails replaced by swastikas and the word 'Nem!' above, Hungarian for 'No'. On a visit to the Imperial War Museum in London, to see Weapons of Mass Communications exhibition, he asked whether they had any record of his poster. Research by museum experts has revealed that it is very rare, created in protest at the occupation of Hungary by Nazi forces in 1944.     [ advertiser24 :: 2008-03-07 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

American demands German museum to return rare poster looted by Nazis
Peter Sachs filed a lawsuit demanding the return of a rare poster in the collection of a Berlin museum that was looted by the Nazis from his father. The 1932 poster "Die Blonde Venus" (The Blonde Venus) was made to promote the film of the same name starring Marlene Dietrich. The poster is worth $20,475, but Sachs hopes if he wins the suit, it will set a precedent for the return of 4,300 works (worth $20-S$60 million) collected by his father that are now in the German Historical Museum. He faces an uphill battle, as the Limbach Commission ruled that the museum was the owner of the poster collection.     [ iht :: 2008-03-04 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

Third Reich Life: Hitler-Era Vacationland - Posters from before WWII
Posters give an eerie glimpse of life in Fascist Germany before WWII. Baltic seaside idyll of a 1941 brochure: A beach with wicker chairs, tourists relaxing in the sun. A swastika flutters over everything, on a flagpole. Another brochure has a photo of Germans exercising in rows on the beach. The North Sea island of Sylt 1937: "Beach games and athletic activities of all kinds - in particular the old Teutonic art of archery - will reawaken your joy of living." Thousands of Germans managed under Nazism to afford their first vacations - by Kraft durch Freude ("Strength Through Joy") organization. Foreign tourism increased in Nazi Germany until the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom.     [ spiegel :: 2007-08-04 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

Abundance of World War II posters devalues item
"You Are Needed Now Join the Army Nurse Corps. Apply At Your Red Cross Recruiting Station," reads the vintage World War II poster that Cheryl Smith bought at a Troy estate sale for $5. "The woman I bought it from said it belonged to her mother, who was a WWII nurse." Storing it away from light and heat accounts for its amazing condition, says David McCarron who appraised the poster as part of a Trash or Treasure day at Judy Frankel Antiques. "Poster collecting is a very hot area," McCarron says. Collectors interested in learning more should check out the collection at Northwestern University, which has more than 300 WWII posters.     [ detnews :: 2007-06-16 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

Soviet era Posters are now art - Propoganda before Perestroika
Posters of the Soviet era are now regarded as art. But back then they were a means to motivate and control workers behind the Iron Curtain. Imagine for a moment that you have just seized control of a country in a bloody revolution. Your rallies have attracted huge crowds, but the country is vast and communications primitive. Newspapers are the only source for those who can read, yet millions are illiterate. So, how to become Big Brother? 1918-1921 over 3500 posters were printed at a rate of 20 a week to get Lenin's message across. In 1919 the artist Alexander Apsit developed the hammer and sickle and the red star, soon to become the iconic images of the Soviet communist era.     [ sundayherald :: 2007-05-06 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

Ukraine row over ex-Soviet leader Joseph Stalin posters
Ukraine: The authorities in the city of Donetsk have removed Posters of ex-Soviet leader Joseph Stalin urging residents to pay their utility bills: "Those who do not pay for heating will be punished!" Historians say Joseph Stalin engineered the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, during which up to 10 million people died. A local energy company had come up with the idea of putting up the Stalin billboards. One of the billboards showed Stalin holding a piece of paper, saying: "Comrades! This is not a film! This is life!"     [ bbc :: 2007-03-28 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

U.S. Ex-Pilot loses appeal for Posters Nazi-Gestapo looted 1938
A retired U.S. pilot lost his appeal for his father's poster collection, looted by the Gestapo in 1938, as a German panel ruled the posters should stay at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. The panel said in a statement that Hans Sachs, who died in 1974, had accepted compensation and never tried to get his collection back. He found out in 1966 that part of it survived the war and was housed at the museum in what was then East Berlin. His son, Peter Sachs appealed for restitution in 2006. Of some 12,500 posters amassed by Hans Sachs, 4,000 remain in the museum, mostly in storage.     [ bloomberg :: 2007-01-26 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

Son seeks Nazi-stolen collection of 12,500 posters
Collecting poster art was a passion for Hans Sachs, a well-to-do German dentist. Sachs cataloged his collection of 12,500 posters and was credited with elevating commercial graphics to an internationally recognized art form during the first decades of the last century. Then came Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass," and Sachs lost nearly everything to Nazis. It was Nov. 9, 1938. The Gestapo arrested him and hauled away his collection, which he never saw again. Today, several thousand of his posters - likely worth millions - are stored in a German history museum, and Sachs' son wants them back.     [ verweg :: 2006-06-03 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

Nazi atrocities on full display - Posters and artifacts
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The simple poster on an easel at Papyri Books was in Ukrainian from World War II. A translation overhead said the poster was a warning to a village that Jews would be rounded up and deported, and troublemakers would be shot. The poster was on display at the shop on Main Street along with dozens of artifacts. The items are part of the collection of Darrell English of North Adams. Several passports and Gestapo files were on display, along with a Bakelite button shaped like a Star of David.     [ berkshireeagle :: 2006-04-26 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

Exhibit will feature vintage posters from World War II
A new exhibit from the Smithsonian Institute featuring home front posters is about to make its way to Elkins. The poster exhibit, titled "Produce For Victory" is only one part of the traveling exhibit. It will feature vintage posters like the now classic "Buy War Bonds" posters seen so much throughout the war. Before the exhibit arrives in November, the Smithsonian is looking for folks who have local WWII memorabilia to display along side the posters.     [ wtrf :: 2006-03-09 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

Russian WWII poster features US ship
Authorities in Moscow removed posters put up to mark Russia's war veterans day after a newspaper noticed that a WWII ship depicted in the artwork was America's USS Missouri. The posters were taken down just hours before Defender of the Motherland Day celebrations. The defence ministry blamed civilian poster designers who did not know the difference between a Russian and American ship. The Missouri was the last battleship built by America and was the venue for Japan's surrender in Tokyo Bay. The vessel last saw action in the first Gulf War in 1991. It is now retired and is a major tourist attraction at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii.     [ aap :: 2006-02-24 :: Lighter side ]

WWII posters taught American patriotism
On the American home front in World War II, being a patriot meant, among other things, buying bonds ("Buy A Share of America!"), working tirelessly, be it in the factory ("Shootin' the Bull Ain't Shootin' Nazis!") or in the home ("Remember Pearl Harbor ... Purl Harder!"). Patriotism, expressed as personal responsibility and sacrifice, was the galvanizing appeal behind millions of posters that were produced and distributed by the government and private industry in an effort to make all Americans feel as though they were a part of the war effort.     [ honoluluadvertiser :: 2006-01-08 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

Nazi Photo Trips Up Confidence Campaign
The "Du Bist Deutschland" media campaign was intended to inspire Germans to feel positive about their country. A photo showing Nazis using a similar slogan in the 1930's has caused more than a few red faces. -- Picture shows a public National Socialist party convention from 1935 where a poster with the face of Adolf Hitler is suspended, supported by a long banner stretched between two groups of soldiers which bears the slogan: "Denn Du bist Deutschland" ('Cause you are Germany) in big bold letters.     [ DW :: 2005-11-25 :: Opinions and Views of World War II ]

Russian Posters - The Great Patriotic War
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The themes of Soviet propaganda shifted dramatically as the Nazi threat grew. Patriotic appeals began to overshadow the theme of communism and the class struggle. Speeches and posters were populated by references to great pre-Soviet heroes such as Alexander Nevsky (the conqueror of the Teutonic Knights who invaded Russia in 1242) and Suvorov. Anti-religious themes disappeared, and satiric cartoons of Kulaks and Capitalists gave way to vicious attacks on Hitler and his henchmen. The Soviet leadership realized that to survive, it needed any help it could find -- both in and out of the country.     [ internationalposter :: 2005-08-08 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

The World War II Northwestern Poster Collection
The 338 items, primarily World War II-era posters, featured in this site's database were collected and preserved by the Northwestern University Government Publications Department. Issued by various U.S. government agencies, these posters represent the government's effort, through art, illustration, and photographs, to pull the American people together in a time of adversity for the country and its population.     [ northwestern :: 2005-05-08 :: Posters of WWII Era ]

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'Nazi Memorabilia'

'Medals'

'WW2, German Flags'

'Nazi Daggers'

'Nazi Helmets'.

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