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Object description
whole: the 15 images occupy the majority, each held within a narrow black border. The title is separate and positioned
across the top edge, in red outlined black gothic script. The text is separate and positioned beneath each image. All set against a white
background.
image: first image: a caricature of Viscount Grey riding on a duck's back. Second image: a French, a British and a Russian soldier impaled
on a lance held by a laughing German soldier. Third image: two artillery shells land near a German soldier who stands with his sword drawn.
Fourth image: a man in a dinner jacket pulls out the lining of his pockets to show that he has no money. A roulette wheel and playing cards
are in the background. Fifth image: a British Sergeant and two badly dressed and unfit looking recruits. Sixth image: a candle inscribed
with the face of Marshal Joffre melts. Seventh image: a Russian dressed in rags and shouting. The last eight images are based on fairground
rides and games, adapted to satirise the Entente powers, dreamt about by the German soldier depicted in the eleventh image. Eighth image: a
fairground ride with German airships dropping bombs on caricatures of English, French and Russian faces. Ninth image: two groups of German
soldiers chasing a French soldier and a Russian soldier. Tenth image: two sets of stairs, marked 'Revolution' and 'War'. A bomb is
positioned on the 'Revolution' stairs, at the top of which stands Tsar Nicolas II. Eleventh image: a wounded German soldier asleep in bed.
Twelfth image: a Senegalese soldier, and a chimpanzee dressed as a Senegalese soldier, in a cage. Thirteenth image: French President
Raymond Poincaré on a water slide. Fourteenth image: British warships exploding amidst a fireworks display. Fifteenth image: a fairground
ride on which caricatures of Entente soldiers are struck by a German iron fist.
text: Nr.1.
1914.
Der deutsche Kriegsbilderbogen
[first image] H.R
Grey
Weltmeisterschafts-Lügner bist du schon;
Nun wirst du bald Ritter der E___nten-Legion!
[second image] H. REWALD
Damned Germans...
Pruss! Pruss!
A Berlin! A Berlin!
Ihr habt den 'spitzen Jungen'-Koller,
Doch unsere Spitzen sind wirkungsvoller!
[third image] Dum
Dum
Ihr Schufte, ihr Heuchler, ihr kommt uns Dum-Dum;
Wir sind doch klüger, Kluck-Kluck haut Euch krumm!
[fourth image] H.R
Monaco lassen wir ungeschoren,
Dort haben noch alle Völker 'verloren' __ __ !
[fifth image] Das englische Söldner-Heer macht uns Spass,
Es hat kein preussisches Garde-Mass
[sixth image] O Joffre, glüht auch dein Licht nicht mehr,
Heimleuchtet dir schon das deutsche Heer __ !!
[seventh image] H.R
Der Russe in Röten verspricht Land und Gunst -
Nichts haben und schenken ist russische Kunst!
Der Landwehrmann Krause, verwundet im Bett, - - Träumt heiter im Lunapark-Lazarett:
[eighth image] Zeppelin
Hurra! Das Zeppelin-Karussell
Propellert dahin elegant und schnell'
Vor Mut und Grausen die Feinde toben,
O Gott, welch Segen kommt da von oben __ !
[ninth image] Das ist die Berg- und Talbahn, die jetzt
Mit siegreichen deutschen
Truppen besetzt: __ __ __
Kaum schlagen im Westen sie
den Franzos
Schon haun sie im Osten auf
Russland los!
[tenth image] Revolution
Krieg
Der Nikolajewitsch denkt: Es ist klar,
Auf die Wackeltreppe gehört der Zar,
Dann bricht er in Östreich und Deutschland ein
Und ausserdem selber Hals und Bein __ __ !
[twelfth image] Völkerschau:
Die Hilfsvölker Frankreichs kann man genau
Beobachten auf dieser Völkerschau:
Zuaven und Turkos sieht mau dort tanzen,
Senegalesen und Schimpanzen!
[thirteenth image] GLOIRE
O Wasser-Rutschbahn, o stolze Höh'!
Es rutscht und pladdert Poincaré,
Voll Mut drang er rückwärts bis nach Bordeaux
In 'Wein'-Laune war er schon sowieso __ .
[fourteenth image] Ein Monstre-Feuerwerk wird verpufft,
Manch englischer Kreuzer fliegt flott in die Luft,
Solche 'Luft-Flotte' Englands ist Michels Ziel,
Er macht gute 'Mine' zum bösen Spiel!
[fifteenth image] H. REWALD
Die Welt in Waffen! Das Teufelsrad saust!
In der Mitte die eiserne deutsche Faust!
Die schlägt unsere Feinde kurz und klein,
Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein!
H.R.
Bilderbogen - Verlag und Expedition: Berlin, Potsdamer Strasse 118A
[No.1. 1914. The German Illustrated War Sheet. [first image] H.R Grey. You are already world championship liar; now you will soon be Knight
of the E___nten [pun: Entente / Ente = duck] Legion! [second image] Damned Germans... Pruss! Pruss! A Berlin! A Berlin! You have the 'sharp
youth'-Koller, but our sharp points are more effective! [third image] Dum Dum [pun: Dumm=stupid]. You blackguards, you hypocrites, you come
to us. Dum-Dum; But we are cleverer, Kluck-Kluck beat yourselves crooked! [fourth image] Monaco we leave unscathed, there all nations have
'lost'! [fifth image] The English mercenary army amuses us, it has no minimum height requirement as do the Prussian Guards. [sixth image]
Oh Joffre, does your light glow no more, is the German army giving you a piece of its mind? [untranslatable pun]! [seventh image] The
Russian in red promises land and favours. To have and give nothing is the Russian art! The Home Guard soldier Krause, wounded in bed,
dreams merrily in the amusement park hospital. [eighth image] Zeppelin Hurrah! The Zeppelin-carousel propels away elegant and fast. The
enemies go wild with courage and horror, Oh God, what blessing comes here from above! [ninth image] This is the rollercoaster, that now
with victorious German troops is full. As soon as in the West they beat the French they already hit away at Russia in the East! [tenth
image] Revolution. War. Nikolaievich thinks: 'It is clear, the Tsar belongs on the rickety stairs, then he breaks into Austria and Germany
and also his own neck and leg!' [twelfth image] Show of nations: France's auxiliary nations can be observed closely at this show of
nations: You can see Suaves and Turks dancing there, Senegalese and chimpanzees! [thirteenth image] Glory. Oh water slide, oh proud height!
Poincaré slides and comes down wet, full of courage he penetrated backwards all the way to Bordeaux. He was already in a mood for 'whine'
anyway. [fourteenth image] A monster firework goes pop, many an English cruiser flies fleetingly in the air, such an 'air-fleet' of England
is what Michel aims for, he puts a good 'face' [pun: mien/mine] on a bad game! [fifteenth image] The world in arms! The devil's wheel
whizzes around! At the centre the German iron fist! It smashes our enemies to pieces. Love the fatherland and may you be at peace!
Illustrated sheet - publication and dispatch: Berlin [address].]
Physical description
Der Deutsche Kriegsbilderbogen Nr. 1.
Label
The character of Michel is used to represent the typical ordinary German.
Inscription
35646
Inscription
35071.