German war exhibition

Title of the war newspaper of the Feste Boyen and the city of Lotzen , number 1 by the first lieutenants Freybe and von Negelein , 1914, issued in 1915 in the war exhibition of the German library

Propaganda - leaflet of the Russian high command in 1915 for the surrender of the German soldiers

German War Exhibition is the generic term for various exhibitions that were shown in several German cities , particularly during the German Empire from the First World War . As an instrument of propaganda and to get the population in the mood for the Second World War - which was not only wanted by Adolf Hitler - war exhibitions glorifying the First World War were also presented during the time of National Socialism .

List of German war exhibitions

• 1916:
  • German War Exhibition (Berlin)
  • German War Exhibition (Darmstadt)
  • German War Exhibition (Hamburg) The digital version of the catalog is available for the exhibition in Hamburg: https://www.europeana.eu/de/item/2020601/https___1914_1918_europeana_eu_contributions_19870
  • German War Exhibition (Karlsruhe)
  • German War Exhibition (Lübeck)
  • German War Exhibition for the Nordmark (Flensburg)
• 1916 to 1917:
  • German War Exhibition (Hanover)

See also

• World War Collection

Literature (selection)

• German war exhibitions in 1916. With the consent and support of the Royal Prussian War Ministry / organized by the Central Committee of the German Red Cross Associations. Klasing, Berlin 1916.
  • Volume 1 [main work]: German war exhibitions 1916.
  • Volume 2 [supplement]: Tour of the Frankfurt am Main war exhibition.
• Christine Beil: The war on display. Presentations of the First World War 1914–1939 (= investigations by the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of the University of Tübingen. Volume 97). Dissertation . Tübingen Association for Folklore, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-932512-27-8 .
  • Book presentation and review by Nadine Rossol of the University of Limerick in 2004; last accessed on August 3, 2014.
• Britta Lange: Exhibiting a war. The "German War Exhibition" in Berlin in 1916. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-935843-20-8 .
  • Book presentation and with a review of the Frankfurter Rundschau , last accessed on August 3, 2014.
  • Review by Stefan Goebel from the Center for Metropolitan History , Institute of Historical Research London, on the H-Net - Humanities and Social Sciences Online page , last accessed on August 3, 2014.

Web links

Commons : German War Exhibition  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• German war exhibition in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Compare the information from the German National Library
2. ↑ Christine Beil: The exhibited war ... 2004.
3. ^ Catalog of the war exhibition in Lübeck: Central Committee of the German Associations of the Red Cross (ed.): German War Exhibition 1916 [Colosseum Cronsford-Allee, November - December 1916; Spoils of war of the army and navy; Several special exhibitions], Berlin: Klasing 1916. Online edition of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart: http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz402354281
4. ^ Hans-Christian Pust: War show in the school yard . In: Flensburger Tageblatt. 150 years of city history from a newspaper perspective . 2nd Edition. Wachholtz, Kiel / Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-529-05164-7 , pp. 73 .