I have added a collection of propaganda postcards, purely because I found them interesting and thought others might find them so.
There were many other propaganda postcards and posters used, during WW1, to bring the Nation together and, by doing so, get the population to accept the hardships that they would have to endure over the coming years.
These postcards were intended to encourage the people to, wholeheartedly, support the war effort and put up with the shortages and problems to come, accepting that these were necessary for the war effort and to beat the evil enemy.
The postcards were designed to belittle the enemy, in every way possible, while elevating this country and its people in the way they looked at themselves – to see themselves as superior (in the nicest possible way, of course), honest, upright, just, and forgiving, while depicting the enemy as, basically, an insensitive, uncivilised, wild, brute.
Click on any of the postcards below to see an enlarged image.
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