German WWII RAF Bombing propaganda poster

Thanks for the info!
The only thing I indeed remembered was that it was related to Poland somehow. Thanks for filling in the blanks.

PS. Just found: http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/3271059833

Just found a note that the artist for both those pictures was Bronislaw Linke. The aircraft skeleton is entitled Luftwaffe.

The one with the skeleton Stuka is an original painting of the fate of Warsaw during the 1944 Uprising. It was done by a famous Polish artist whose name I am trying to remember. He may have painted the other one as well.

The Nazis dropped leaflets on the Arabs in the Western Desert during the Rommel campaign.

They showed a Pound note on one side with a message in Arabic telling the people how useless the Pound would be when Rommel won. My brother brought a pack of them back,where are they now?:eek: In the bin years ago!

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Have’nt got the one you want, but have these… 😉

Geez I’ve been looking for that first one (Fw 187-powered skeleton) poster for years, having seen it a couple of times in my childhood in WW2 books. Thanks for posting it here. It’s a particularly sinister one. Does anyone have more info on it? Is this also the work of Otto Sander-Herweg (like the “Verdunkeln” one)?

Have’nt got the one you want, but have these… 😉

I did a history paper on this very poster when I was younger. Both sides produced some inspiring works to transmit public messages, boost morale, and motivate.

That`s true, indeed…

Here are 20 british examples, incl. some aircraft. Use the slider on the right to move forward:
http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/1356/krieg_der_bunten_bilder.html

😉

Absolutely correct….

As a native speaker, the translation is just:
“The enemy sees your lights. Darken/Dim!”

The skeleton is a symbol for what could happen if you don`t… not for the Allies. People were not that stupid, even during WW2.

I did a history paper on this very poster when I was younger. Both sides produced some inspiring works to transmit public messages, boost morale, and motivate.

Perhaps this was just a warning to keep the lights out, and not ‘how the Germans saw the allies’.

I spent a good part of my chilhood dodging bombs, bullets and missiles in London, and remember there were plenty of posters telling people to douse the lights there.

A ‘Blackout’ means just that in any language, when there are enemy aircraft above you!

Bri 🙂

Absolutely correct….

As a native speaker, the translation is just:
“The enemy sees your lights. Darken/Dim!”

The skeleton is a symbol for what could happen if you don`t… not for the Allies. People were not that stupid, even during WW2.

Thanks for the translation.

A collection of these would be an interesting basis for a FlyPast article…how the axis saw the allies…and some unusual depictions of allied aircraft.

Perhaps this was just a warning to keep the lights out, and not ‘how the Germans saw the allies’.

I spent a good part of my chilhood dodging bombs, bullets and missiles in London, and remember there were plenty of posters telling people to douse the lights there.

A ‘Blackout’ means just that in any language, when there are enemy aircraft above you!

Bri 🙂

In a similar vein, does anyone have air dropped propaganda leaflets from either side.
I’m cursing a bit because on my last trip to see my mother in Nottingham, I came across some that my father had collected and I was tempted to bring them back and post them on here, where he got them from, I don’t know, I suspect that when he returned to his job in the print trade after the war, it was material that he found lying about in the factory.
One of these is quite complex and involved the destruction of U-Boats.
It’s one of these sliding thingies showing happy, smiling German sailors, slide the card and they become grim corpses floating underwater.
I can’t imagine what the effect of being chucked out of an aircraft had on these things, perhaps they were never used, has anybody seen one of these.
I promise to bring them back on my next trip up north.

Thanks for the translation.

A collection of these would be an interesting basis for a FlyPast article…how the axis saw the allies…and some unusual depictions of allied aircraft.

Verdunkel means darken, ie darken (blackout) your lights

“Beware giant skeleton Blenheim jockeys”

According to my good friend Mr Babelfish, it translates as

“The enemy sees your light”

Apparently ‘Verdunkeln’ means ‘collude’, which for those what not be good at English, means ‘To act together secretly to achieve a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose; conspire’ – not quite sure how that fits in with the poster, unless it’s a mistranslation and it should mean to do the same as others and keep the lights out/covered up

Can someone translate?

Fantastic, just the ticket – cheers!

Would this do?

http://www.payworxx.de/archivverlag/images/product_images/popup_images/58_6.jpg