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**FrenchVolunteer** · 11-13-2011, 08:24 PM

Hi,

A long post about the french posters.
Yes i made a big mistake, the "panzer IV" poster is of course not by Anton.
I still have no news about this one, but we will try to know more about it.

A few museums in France have various french posters, but here are the links for the ones available on the BNF, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (french national library). Depending of the case, this is possible to have a look on some documents, or have a copy of them (usually this is A4 or A3 b&w copies).
If i think the time, i will try to have a look of them (it seemed that some may be mislabeled).

- "Engagez-vous à la Waffen-SS” (“Join the Waffen-SS”)
70cm x 54cm
Nota : i don’t know what poster this is… Maybe the “Toi aussi !” poster ???
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/servlet/bibl...host=catalogue

- "Coude à coude contre l’ennemi commun ” (“Side by side against our common enemy”)
120cm x 82cm
Nota : 2 SS soldier + tarnjacke + MP40
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/servlet/bibl...host=catalogue

- "La Waffen-SS t’appelle” (“The Waffen-SS is calling you”)
85cm x 60cm
Nota : similar to the postcard. SS man + worker. Strangely Anton is not identified ???
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/servlet/bibl...host=catalogue

The small poster "Jeune Français engage toi dans les unités françaises de la Waffen-SS " ("French youngman join the French Waffen-SS units") probably printed when a few various units were planned.
The picture is taken from Auction #61, Hermann Historica. The design is similar to the French SS booklet “Unités françaises de la Waffen-SS” (“French Waffen-SS units”). A French “La SS t’appelle” (“Dich Ruft Die SS” / “The SS is calling you”) booklet is also pictured.
The dimensions seemed to be around 30cm x 21cm (A4).

The "L'heure de la libération va sonner ! / J'accuse les hommes de la Waffen-SS" ("Your liberation is coming ! / I blame the men of the Waffen-SS" - an ironic propaganda document) flyer is also available on the archives of the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent (director : Christian Ingrao, writer about the Dirlewanger brigade and the intellectuals in the SS) in Paris
http://opac.ihtp.cnrs.fr/cgi-bin/koh...lionumber=6131

and at the BDIC (Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine) of Nanterre (west of Paris) :
http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/DB=2.1/SET=...HLIB=920502101

The flyer is 23cm x 14,5cm, date of publication : 29-05-1944 (source : IHTP).

Recto : bombers
Verso : the act of accusation of the Waffen-SS soldiers

To end with a more “Germanic touch”, I think no one pictured this rare SS propaganda booklet with a very nice Anton drawing !

“Bauer Und Soldat” (“Peasant and soldier”) is probably from 1941 or 1942, in the time when the east was still a dream and new colony territory... 32 pages, A5 size.

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Vince

**Rene Chavez** · 11-13-2011, 09:06 PM

Originally posted by T.K. View Post

Hello Tony,

what about this one?

Thanks

This one is an original shown in thread 488.

Rene Chavez
www.foreignvolunteerlegion.com

**FrenchVolunteer** · 11-13-2011, 09:07 PM

Hi,

a similar poster to the french SS one : this is about SS panzermen.

"SS-Panzermänner - ganze Kerle"

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Vince

**TonyS** · 11-13-2011, 09:30 PM

Hi Vince - did you get my PM about the French Panzer IV poster?

**FrenchVolunteer** · 11-13-2011, 09:50 PM

Hi Tony,

yes, unfortunately i don't have any more infos (for now) on that poster...
I will check a few museums in the next days.

At least the Musée National de la Résistance (national resistance museum) has one copy of the poster :
http://www.annefrankguide.net/fr-fr/....asp?aid=88341
http://www.musee-resistance.com/index.php

The Imperial War Museum also has a copy :
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205093616

An additional informations about the same poster that was modified by the résistance !
The PCF - Parti Communiste Français - made a film in 1946 ("Les lendemains qui chantent" - "the happy days of tomorrow") to support the french elections. http://www.cinearchives.org/Catalogu...2-111-0-0.html
In the fourth sequence, about the communist resistance during the war (FTP : Francs Tireurs et Partisans), our poster is shown, with someone modifying the text.

16 49 : Plan sur un char à la base duquel se trouve un panneau. Une main s'affaire à effacer l'inscription "si tu veux que la France vive, tu combattras contre le bolchevisme".
(Duration : less than 10 seconds)

The film is available in the BNF.
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/servlet/bibl...host=catalogue

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Vince

**FrenchVolunteer** · 11-13-2011, 10:51 PM

Hi,

the Mémorial de Caen in Normandie has a lot of SS posters in its collection (some are copies from other national libraries like the one of Oslo) :

(I did not include the various "Norske Legion" posters that are not explicit enough).

You can ask copies here :
http://www.affiches-memorial.unicaen...rial/droit.htm

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Vince

**TonyS** · 11-14-2011, 12:24 AM

Originally posted by FrenchVolunteer View Post

Hi Tony,

yes, unfortunately i don't have any more infos (for now) on that poster...
I will check a few museums in the next days.

At least the Musée National de la Résistance (national resistance museum) has one copy of the poster :
http://www.annefrankguide.net/fr-fr/....asp?aid=88341
http://www.musee-resistance.com/index.php

The Imperial War Museum also has a copy :
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205093616

An additional informations about the same poster that was modified by the résistance !
The PCF - Parti Communiste Français - made a film in 1946 ("Les lendemains qui chantent" - "the happy days of tomorrow") to support the french elections. http://www.cinearchives.org/Catalogu...2-111-0-0.html
In the fourth sequence, about the communist resistance during the war (FTP : Francs Tireurs et Partisans), our poster is shown, with someone modifying the text.

16 49 : Plan sur un char à la base duquel se trouve un panneau. Une main s'affaire à effacer l'inscription "si tu veux que la France vive, tu combattras contre le bolchevisme".
(Duration : less than 10 seconds)

The film is available in the BNF.
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/servlet/bibl...host=catalogue

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Vince

Thanks Vince.

Whether they are copies or originals though is a good question ........

The Imperial War Museum's description says they have a black and white photo. Then they they don't show any photo.

And the colors on the one from the Anne Frank Memorial look pretty strange.

Thanks for the effort though.

**PBR** · 11-14-2011, 03:10 AM

Originally posted by Rene Chavez View Post

This one is an original shown in thread 488.

Rene Chavez
www.foreignvolunteerlegion.com

Thanks.

**PBR** · 11-14-2011, 03:13 AM

Originally posted by TonyS View Post

Hi TK,

Like Vince, I believe it is okay but I cannot seem to find another one with the Bohemia and Monrovia details on it. Heydrich's old stamping ground.

But it does look good.

Thanks again.

**Max Wünsche** · 11-14-2011, 07:30 AM

That one is showing Adolf Peichl, all 2 tonne's of him

Originally posted by FrenchVolunteer View Post

Hi,

a similar poster to the french SS one : this is about SS panzermen.

"SS-Panzermänner - ganze Kerle"

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Vince

**FrenchVolunteer** · 11-14-2011, 07:58 AM

Hi,

the Anne Frank Memorial picture is infact the poster in the archives of the Musée National de la Résistance (MNR).

The Mémorial de Caen seemed to have the poster too (physically i mean).

An interesting picture, probably by André Zucca, showing a big SS runic poster (the same as on the already published picture with various french SS posters), below the "Avec tes camarades européens sous le signe SS tu vaincras !" then below a small poster for an exposition of "pictures of the european Waffen-SS".

The exposition took place from January 21 to February 29, 1944 in the... current Disney Store location on the #42, avenue des Champs-Elysées (!).
At the time it was the exposition hall for Citroën.
You can notice that the Propaganda Staffel (für Frankreich) HQ was on #52, avenue des Champs-Elysées.

Another interesting picture, this is a stand for Waffen-SS recrutment in Marseille (location unknown, maybe in the local Ersatzkommando, 4 boulevard Riquet). The two young frenchmen are members of the JEN ("Jeunes de l'Europe Nouvelle" / "New Europe's Youngmen").

The JEN was called "Collaboration-Jeunesse" from may to november 1941 : it was the youth organisation of the "Groupe Collaboration", an intellectual collaborationist mouvement.
The first director of "Collaboration Jeunesse" was Marc Augier (aka Saint-Loup), the future redactor in chief of "Le Combattant Européen" ("the european fighter") the LVF newspaper, then the redactor in chief of "Devenir" ("Becoming", the Waffen-SS french newspaper - french version of the dutch "Aufbruch" SS newspaper - content very similar to the SS-Leithefte).

You can notice the "La Waffen-SS t'appelle" poster pinned on the stand.

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Vince

**FrenchVolunteer** · 11-14-2011, 08:06 AM

Hi,

the Böhmen Und Mähren Ergängsamt der Waffen-SS address is at least good.

Nebenstelle Böhmen Und Mähren
Prag IV
Czernin-Palais

(Taken from "Bauer Und Soldat", courtesy of Luc and Loïc).

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Vince

**FrenchVolunteer** · 11-14-2011, 02:18 PM

Hi,

sourced from the special edition of "Axe Et Alliés" on the french Waffen-SS (main redactor : Eric Lefèvre, who worked as documentalist with Jean Mabire).
The poster is taken from the collection of the Mémorial de Caen.

"Coude à coude face à l'ennemi commun"

An official statement poster about the recruitment in the Waffen-SS. This poster was made for the north of France, which was under the command of the Military Command from Bruxelles.

You can notice that a few french SS propaganda flyers were done for that area (no other flyer from France is known, with the exception of the "L'heure de la libération va sonner" which was printed for the rest of France in May 1944) :

- "Camarade" ("comrade")
Source : Collector's Guild (2 pages flyer)

- "Dich Ruft Die SS"
Source : Usmbooks (4 pages flyer)
Nota : i own two copies of that flyer, one is a less bigger than the other one so i'm pretty sure that at one is a fake. It seemed that a stock was found in the north of France by a member of a french forum. But strangely you can find it coming from Germany too, where it was probably faked.

Another poster for the SS-Sturmbrigade Langemarck.

"Vlamingen alle in de SS Langemarck !"

Source : "The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Third Reich" by Richard Ivory
Nota : the poster is said to be from April 1944.

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Vince

**FrenchVolunteer** · 11-14-2011, 06:21 PM

Hi,

interesting fact i discovered : it seemed that the exposition about the Waffen-ss pictures was showed in Paris, then in Bruxelles :

- Paris, 42 avenue des Champs-Elysées from January 21 to February 29, 1944.
(i recently posted the small poster)

- Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts from March 18 to Avril 17, 1944.
(you can found the red poster in a previous page of the topic)

Nota : the two-weeks break is logic to transfer the exposition.
Maybe the exposition was shown in other countries, for example in the Netherlands, Danemark, Norway or even Germany in early 1944 ?
Anyone may have info ?

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Vince

**novedvory** · 11-15-2011, 11:03 AM

"Dich Ruft Die SS"

the "Dich Ruft Die SS" flyer was found during the late 80s in the North of FRANCE during the cleaning of the attic of the former WSS French recruitment office in Douais .
There was a very big pile of them and they were sold realy cheap at the begining of their discovery !

The bigger flyer in rough paper is legit, the thin one is a fake !

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