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Confiance... Ses Amputations se poursuivent méthodiquement
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Confiance... Ses Amputations se poursuivent méthodiquement
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
France (made)
- Date:
ca. 1942 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
S.P.K. (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Colour lithograph
- Credit Line:
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
- Museum number:
E.1293-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case MM, shelf 8
Churchill is caricatured here as a voracious hydra with tentacles grabbing key sites of British involvement in the Second World War. The tentacles are shown being amputated by the German forces and their allies. It may seem unusual that this poster was produced in France, a nation that was one of Britian's waritme allies, but it is an example of anti-British propaganda produced under the French occupation after Germany defeated France in 1940.
The strategic locations singled out on the map are meant to appeal to the emotions of the French people. Fresh in the public consciousness were Britain's controversial campaigns against German expansion in the French colonial sites of Dakar and Mers-el-Kébir, which left many Frenchmen dead.
