Netherlands In Wartime WWII Illustrated Map

£575.00

Original vintage World War Two poster 1940-1945 Nederland in Oorlogstijd / The Netherlands in Wartime featuring an illustration of a map with parachutists over Rotterdam in fire and flames, a Nazi flag in Amsterdam with soldiers shooting people, s-Gravenhage / The Hague and other cities and rivers marked, a soldier with a whip towering over Vught concentration camp prisoners and soldiers in blue throwing grenades with planes and tanks entering the country captioned Inval der Duitschers / invasion of the Germans, soldiers in green carrying banners that read Intocht der Geallieerde Troepen / Entry of Allied Troops, people in a long line from Putten queuing up in front of a house with a red roof captioned Het Gastvrije Noorden / The Hospitable North, images of cattle and goods being transported out of the Netherlands with a compass next to more fighter planes and war ships on the North Sea. The ornate frame of smaller images depict people in a queue, a mother and children fighting famine and the cold, a man at an educational institution door, planes dropping ammunition, a liberation celebration, people in long coats, a man sending signals on the radio, a man at a tribune praying with the parish supporting the spiritual resistance, the press torn from the enemy's grasp supporting free speech, soldiers leading people through a labour camp, people tearing down the railway to disadvantage the enemy, the heart of Netherlands Rotterdam on fire, people pulling a cart escaping starvation, the Gestapo Secret State Police officers on a train observing others, friends and neighbours working on restoring the destroyed houses, prisoners looking at bodies at the Vught concentration camp surrounded with barbed wire, soldiers breaking down the door of a house, and a lady and a gentleman gathering weapons struggling for freedom. Fair condition, restored tears, restored paper losses, staining, paper losses.

Country

Netherlands

Year

1940s

Style

War Posters

Size (cm)

100x70