Quem queria guerra: A Allemanha ou A Gra-Gretanha? [Who wanted the war: Germany or Great Britain?]

A Portuguese First World War poster depicting eleven images comparing the war readiness of Germany with Great Britain as it asks "Who wanted the war?". Portugal declared its support for the allies shortly after the outbreak of the war. By November, Portugal was fighting German troops on the frontier between Mozambique and German East Africa. The Portuguese navy embarked on an offensive against German ships in its harbours on February 1916. In response, Germany declared war on Portugal. By the end of the war, approximately 100,000 Portuguese eventually fought with the Allies on the Western Front and Mozambique; of these 7,000 died in combat. The first image is a panoramic view of a British sailor standing underneath guns protecting a long stretch of coastline. Beside this is an image a quarter of its size with a German sailor, standing against a more diminutive coastline. The third image contrasts the German and British military budgets with two contrastingly sized sacks of money. The fourth and fifth images depict ships, contrasting the size of the German and British merchant fleets. The sixth image contrasts the German and British naval budgets with two contrastingly sized sacks of money. The seventh image depicts an artillery gun crushing two civilian, lain underneath. The eighth image contrast a German and British infantryman and size of land they each protect. The ninth image depicts an artillery gun being held aloft by a mass of civilians. The tenth and eleventh images contrast the ratio of servicemen to civilians in Britain and Germany.