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title: Die vier hohen Verbündeten mit ihren ersten Heerführern (The Four High Allies with Their Foremost Commanders)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/die-vier-hohen-verbundeten-postcard-1916/
description: Eight uniformed portraits in a scrolled frame, under a crowned double-headed eagle, with an Ottoman crescent flag at left and a Bulgarian tricolour with…
section: Collection
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# Die vier hohen Verbündeten mit ihren ersten Heerführern (The Four High Allies with Their Foremost Commanders)

Eight uniformed portraits in a scrolled frame, under a crowned double-headed eagle, with an Ottoman crescent flag at left and a Bulgarian tricolour with a lion emblem at right. At the centre a sword stands upright through a pair of scales in a laurel wreath. The tell is the justice emblem and state symbols gathered round the portraits, which present the alliance as one lawful, unified cause without an argument.

- **Date:** 1916
- **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi)
- **Made by:** Verlag Gustav Braun, Vienna (publisher per library catalogue); printed by J. Gerstmayer, Vienna
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [Austria Hungary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=austria-hungary)
- **Medium:** [Postcard](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=postcard)
- **Issuer type:** [Corporation](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=corporation)
- **Regime:** [Austria Hungary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=austria-hungary)
- **Leader:** [Franz Joseph I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=franz-joseph-i)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front)
- **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Public Library 'Pencho Slaveykov', Varna (History of Varna Museum, Yaroslav Gochev collection), via Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2058609/object_PSRL_5411622), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC0 (holding library, via Europeana); published 1916, U.S. public domain (pre-1931) Die vier hohen Verbündeten mit ihren ersten Heerführern, Verlag Gustav Braun, Vienna, 1916. Public Library 'Pencho Slaveykov', Varna, via Europeana (CC0).

## Text on the object

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

```
Die vier hohen Verbündeten mit ihren ersten Heerführern
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The four high allies with their foremost commanders
```

The only text on the front. The reverse was not imaged in the catalogue record. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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