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title: Bohaterowie frontu i kawiarni (Heroes of the Front and of the Café)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bohaterowie-frontu-kawiarni-poland-1920/
description: A two-panel poster sets a grim, rifle-carrying soldier beside three smoking, coffee-drinking civilians, one reading a newspaper headed 'Do broni!' (To…
section: Collection
---

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[![Bohaterowie frontu i kawiarni (Heroes of the Front and of the Café)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bohaterowie-frontu-kawiarni-poland-1920.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bohaterowie-frontu-kawiarni-poland-1920.jpg)

# Bohaterowie frontu i kawiarni (Heroes of the Front and of the Café)

A two-panel poster sets a grim, rifle-carrying soldier beside three smoking, coffee-drinking civilians, one reading a newspaper headed 'Do broni!' (To arms!), under the title 'Heroes of the Front and of the Café'. Calling the café-sitters 'heroes' is the loaded label: the irony brands men who have not enlisted as shirkers without stating any charge.

## Text on the object

Original (Polish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
BOHATEROWIE

FRONTU i KAWIARNI

[newspaper in the right-hand panel:] KURIE[illegible]
DO BRONI!!

Kotkowski i Frejlich w Łodzi. Piotrk. 91
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
HEROES

OF THE FRONT and OF THE CAFÉ

[newspaper in the right-hand panel:] KURIE[illegible]
TO ARMS!!

Kotkowski and Frejlich in Łódź. Piotrk. [Piotrkowska St.] 91
```

The newspaper title is cut off by the panel border after 'KURIE' (probably Kurier). The first letter of 'FRONTU' is partly hidden by an archive label; library shelf marks at top right omitted.

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