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Social Progress - Czechoslovakia, 1939 Czechoslovakia leaflet: A landscape leaflet page with photographs of a state hospital

Social Progress - Czechoslovakia

A landscape leaflet page with photographs of a state hospital, a children's pool and the Masaryk Homes for old people, beside text on social welfare and a closing contrast with German rule. The tell for card-stacking is the pre-Munich welfare list set against one closing sentence about the concentration camp, with no figures; 'Social Progress' is a virtue phrase used without measures.

Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

Card stackingGlittering generalities
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Not stated on the item (English-language Czechoslovakia leaflet series, page 6)
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
Czechoslovakia
Medium
Leaflet
Issuer type
Mixed
Regime
Czechoslovak Government in Exile
Leader
Edvard Benes
Audience
Foreign public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
Health, Labor
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 (no rights statement; wartime Allied publication)
Issuer not stated. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-771.

Text on the object

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

SOCIAL PROGRESS

Social Progress was advanced and was still advancing in Czechoslovakia. A Ministry of Social Welfare safe-guarded workers wages, working hours, housing conditions, health and holidays. Special care was given to the very young and the old. The scope of Social Insurance was wide and made hospital treatment available to all ; generous grants and provisions were made to mothers and their babies.

Before Munich there were many school milk centres; clinics for mothers and infants ; free dispensaries ; childrens' holiday centres, convalescent homes and orphanages.

Now, in place of Social Progress the Germans solve all problems with the concentration camp.

A State Hospital in the mountains.
The Masaryk Homes for old people.

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