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Czechoslovakia Lives, 1939 Czechoslovakia print: A numbered sheet (no

Czechoslovakia Lives

A numbered sheet (no. 1) with a black-and-white map of the Czechoslovak Republic with industry symbols, a locator map of Europe, photographs of three girls in folk dress and a modern building, and a short text. The tell for glittering-generalities is the text's 'industrious and progressive people whose achievements ... are remarkable' and the claim that the pictures show Czechoslovakia 'as it was and will be again'.

Propaganda techniques used in this print

Glittering generalities
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Czechoslovak Government Information Service (lithographed in the U.S.A.)
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
Czechoslovakia
Medium
Print
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 (lithographed in the U.S.A.), National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-761.

Text on the object

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

CZECHOSLOVAKIA LIVES
These pictures try to introduce Czechoslovakia as it was and will be again.
Czechoslovakia ranks eighth in population among the European nations. Her area and population are equal to those of the State of New York and Connecticut combined. Her location in Central Europe places her in a position of utmost strategical importance. This position is enhanced by her industry, the work of this industrious and progressive people whose achievements in the first twenty years of independence are remarkable.
CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC
1
Issued by the Czechoslovak Government Information Service
Lithographed in the U.S.A.
[map legend:] Iron and Coal Mining; Sugar Refineries; Wheat; Wine; Fishery; Shoes; Beer; Armament; Spas; Forestry

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