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    Posted 10 years ago

    Chrisnp
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    “This piece of German Propaganda was dropped from a German Airplane this morning. The Germans are very busy now days.” The date in pencil is the 29th of October. The leaflet outlines the German peace proposal which would evolve into the Armistice that went into effect 11 November.

    The leaflet came to me with other papers belonging to an American doughboy named Arthur. That’s him (left) in a photograph taken at Camp Funston in 1917 with his friend Gus. I think we can forgive him a bit of young soldier’s boastfulness when he writes “This is a good souvinier to keep. It shows what the German people are thinking now that the Amex are after them” (sic).

    The black paper glued to the French language side of flier may have been from the page of an old scrap album. I thought this was an interesting piece of ephemera from a war that started 100 years ago this August.

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    1. Chrisnp Chrisnp, 10 years ago
      Thanks for the love pw-collector, petey, blunder and aghcollect.

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