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Jul 26, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
“Croatian Legion - Stalingrad” – 🇭🇷 #Croatian stamp from 1943 depicting soldiers fighting at the Battle of Stalingrad. Image
The Croatian Legion (Hrvatska Legija) was a unit of the German Wehrmacht - officially the 369th Reinforced Infantry Division - that fought on the #EasternFront during the Second World War.
The unit was composed of Croatian volunteers from the Axis puppet Independent State of #Croatia, whose name you can see at the bottom of the stamp (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska)

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'The Yellow Peril' — American cartoon published in Puck magazine (23 March 1904) comparing an oppressive and backwards Russia with a modern and progressive Japan. Artist: Udo Keppler. Image
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Panamanian illustrations published in 1989 by the Panama Defense Forces.


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'The Canal is ours!' Image
Soldiers of the elite Macho de Monte Infantry Company, one of them wearing a t-shirt reading 'Hasta la muerte comandante coño' (which I'm told in this context means 'Until death, Commander, damn it!')
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Caricatures of international leaders published in Ken magazine, 1938.


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'Goebbels, ringmaster of the Reich's culture circus' (19 May, 1938) Image
'Chamberlain, the bounding bunny of Europe' (5 May, 1938) Image
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'What Germany Wants' — British propaganda map from the First World War (ca. 1918) showing a German-dominated 'Central Europe' and 'Central Africa'. Image
The map was adapted from a similar map published in 'The German Plot Unmasked', an anti-German propaganda book written by French journalist André Chéradame in 1916.

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Some details. Area shaded red is territory allegedly sought by Germany as part of its 'German Central Europe and Central Africa Scheme'. Hamburg-Constantinople-Baghdad railway is also shown, plus 'Other Railways', 'Former Colonies' and 'Uncompleted Railways'.


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'Does the bicycle make women cruel?' — American cartoon published in the Los Angeles Herald newspaper (13 June, 1897) showing a woman callously cycling over another. Image
The cartoon illustrated an article about an alleged 'new mania which is afflicting women who ride bicycles', with the author reporting on cases of the mania developing in France.


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'The physicians found that the first known case of the mania developed last January … That it was cycling that brought the mania on there seems no question. Only wheelwomen have been afflicted with it, and oddly enough, in every instance, they have been over 30 years of age'. Image
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'Colonizability of Africa' — British map (1899) showing Africa shaded according to its suitability for European colonisation. Image
Created by prominent cartographer John Bartholomew (left) for a book by British explorer and colonialist Harry Johnston (right) titled 'A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races'.
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According to the key:

Pink denotes 'Healthy colonizable Africa, where European races may be expected to become in time the prevailing type, where essentially European states may be formed' Image
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