Ein Volk in Waffen gegen eine Welt in Waffen (A People in Arms against a World in Arms), Red Cross welfare postcard
A black-and-white portrait of a uniformed officer in a spiked helmet, ringed by a laurel wreath and framed by German flags, a gun barrel and rifles, under the slogan 'Ein Volk in Waffen gegen eine Welt in Waffen' and the name 'Graf Haeseler'. The reverse marks it a Red Cross welfare card. The tell is a named soldier's portrait and flags lent to a slogan that frames the war as one nation against the whole world.
Propaganda techniques used in this postcard
- Date
- September 11, 1914
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- German Red Cross welfare-postcard series (publisher not named); printed by Knackstedt & Co., Hamburg
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- German Empire
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- German Empire
- Leader
- Wilhelm II
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front, Health
- Event
- World War I
- Leader
- Wilhelm II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Europeana 1914-1918 (user contribution 696), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (contributor licence, Europeana 1914-1918); printed 1914, U.S. public domain (pre-1931)
Wohlfahrtspostkarte für das Rote Kreuz, 1914. Europeana 1914-1918, contribution 696, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Text on the object
Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked
Ein Volk in Waffen gegen eine Welt in Waffen 19 14 Graf Haeseler [reverse, printed:] Wohlfahrtspostkarte Zum Besten des Roten Kreuzes [printer's line, as read:] Druck v. Knackstedt & Co., Hamburg 22
A people in arms against a world in arms 1914 Count Haeseler [reverse, printed:] Welfare postcard For the benefit of the Red Cross [printer's line, as read:] Printed by Knackstedt & Co., Hamburg 22
A tiny mark at the lower right of the front is [illegible]. The reverse's handwritten message, postmark and address are not transcribed. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
