Description

This uncommon pictorial propaganda map was published at the beginning of WWI, to promote the army of the Central Powers.

The soldiers od the Central Powers are represented as fearless men pushing away the useless unprofessional caricatures, depicting the European countries. The accompanying poem blames Serbians, followed by the Russians, for ruining “the harmony of the European concert”. The text calls men to join the German army in the march on the German patriotic song Die Wacht am Rhein.

The map was contemporary published by at least two other Berlin-based firms, namely Verlag für heimatl. Kultur and Union in Charlottenburg.

Our example bears a stamp of a selling representative for these maps for Hungary.

We could find two institutional copies of the map (Austrian National Library, KS 16216186 POR MAG, and The Met, New York). Other examples appear to be published by Verlag für heimatliche Kultur Willy Holz.