Der neue Dreibund (The New Triple Alliance): postcard
Sepia postcard with oval portraits of Wilhelm II, Franz Joseph I and the Ottoman sultan Mehmed V, each under a crest, around an Iron Cross marked 'W 1914' and a crescent-and-star emblem, titled 'The New Triple Alliance'. The shared laurel frame and Iron Cross put the Ottoman ruler on the same footing as the two emperors.
Propaganda techniques used in this postcard
- Date
- 1915
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Dr. Haas'sche Druckerei, Mannheim (postcard publisher, Tiefdruck department)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- German Empire
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- German Empire
- Leader
- Wilhelm II
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War I
- Leader
- Wilhelm II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan by Bernd Schwabe), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain postcard (c. 1915); scan CC BY-SA 3.0 (Bernd Schwabe, per Wikimedia Commons)
Bernd Schwabe in Hannover, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked
Der neue Dreibund [on the Iron Cross: W 1914]
The new Triple Alliance [on the Iron Cross: W 1914]
Only the title and the Iron Cross lettering are printed on the picture side. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
