Czechoslovakia (illustrated information map sheet)
A large fold-out sheet with a map of Czechoslovakia ringed in orange, panels on history, culture, industry and agriculture, and photographs including T. G. Masaryk, President Benes with President Roosevelt at the White House (1943) and Czechoslovak army units in Britain and the USSR. The sheet is mainly informational; the tell for transfer is the pairing of the state's map and history with portraits of Masaryk and with the Allied leaders and armies.
Propaganda techniques used in this print
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Czechoslovak Government Information Service, 1790 Broadway, New York
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Medium
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Czechoslovak Government in Exile
- Leader
- Edvard Benes
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; US exile-body issue, hosted by owner decision
Czechoslovak Government Information Service, 1790 Broadway, New York, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-759.
Text on the object
CZECHOSLOVAKIA AREA: 54,244 square miles. POPULATION in 1938: 15,247,000 CAPITAL: PRAHA (Prague), population approximately one million COAT OF ARMS HISTORY [numbered chronology from 800-863 to 1938-1939; the final entry reads:] 1938-39: As a result of the Munich dictate, Czechoslovakia lost approximately a third of its territory and population to Germany, Hungary and Poland, and is finally occupied by Germany and Hungary. Czechoslovaks at home, in the U.S.A., France, England, Soviet Russia and the rest of the world, wage open and underground struggle against the invaders. CULTURE INDUSTRY THE PEOPLE AGRICULTURE CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Heart of Europe President Edvard Benes with President F. D. Roosevelt at the White House, 1943 Czechoslovak Army in Great Britain Czechoslovak Army Unit in the USSR SOKOL FESTIVAL in Prague Issued by the Czechoslovak Government Information Service, 1790 Broadway, N. Y. C. Printed in the U. S. A. [Only headings, captions and the final chronology entry are transcribed; the body text is small print.]
