German Cruelty to British Prisoners

Place Europe: United Kingdom
Accession Number ARTV03928
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 73.6 x 50.2 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description chromolithograph on paper
Maker Unknown
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
Hudson & Son
Place made United Kingdom
Date made c.1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Text based British poster. There is no image. The text is framed by a red and brown border, and the writing is also red or brown ink. The title runs from the upper left corner to to the upper right corner and is printed in red ink. The text draws attention to alleged human rights abuses committed by Germans against British prisoners of war. Kitchener (also known as Kitchener of Khartoum because of his involvement in the final Sudanese campaign), compares the brutality of the Germans with 'the same barbarous savagery as the Sudan Dervishes.'

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