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A Highly Industrialised Country - Czechoslovakia, 1939 Czechoslovakia poster: Leaflet page 11 with aerial and ground

A Highly Industrialised Country - Czechoslovakia

Leaflet page 11 with aerial and ground photographs of Czechoslovak factories, a cartoon of armed German officers at a Skoda lathe, and text that industry is being forced to feed the Nazi war machine. The tell for card-stacking is that only output figures and plant views are shown, with no data on wages, ownership or the pre-1939 trade balance.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Card stacking
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Issuer not stated (English-language leaflet series on Czechoslovakia, page 11)
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
Czechoslovakia
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Czechoslovak Government in Exile
Leader
Edvard Benes
Audience
Foreign public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
Economy and finance, War and the military
Event
World War II
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
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; hosted by owner decision
Issuer not stated, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-754.

Text on the object

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

A HIGHLY INDUSTRIALISED COUNTRY

Czechoslovakia had an extensive and highly specialised industry manufacturing almost everything for home and the world market. Glass-works, mines and sugar factories are to be found all over the country.

Czechoslovakia's industry, her armament plants, her agriculture, her famous textile and shoe factories-her railways and communications-all are now being forced, against bitter opposition, to feed the Nazi war machine.

TOP
Bata shoes from Zlin, where 280,000 pairs were made every day.
CENTRE (left).
In the Skoda works to-day. A Czechoslovak artist's impression of the great armament centre.
CENTRE (right).
The rudder of the 'Normandie' was made in Czechoslovakia.
BOTTOM.
Skoda from the air-target for the R.A.F.

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