VIF 029
Rare Vichy poster titled National Revolution. Size 80x120cm. M
Price: $950.00
Vichy/ Free France and Lead up
VIF 027
VIF 027
Fold-out broadside supporting family and agriculture. Repaired. m
Price: $120.00
VIF 026
VIF 026
Anti-Churchill Propaganda, 1943. Torn and needs repairing. m
Price: $120.00
VIF 022
A four page communication from Petain, September 22, 1941. M
Price: $90.00
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Progaganda from the Vichy Ministry of Finance to encourage people to buy Savings Bonds. 8 pages. M
Price: $110.00
VIF 010
VIF 010
August 12, 1941 9 page communication on Petains views. m ah
Price: $120.00
VIF 003
Vichy broadside against Maurice Thorez. Size 14x21cm. It reads "Thorez, the first resistance fighter in France! Let's go then! What was he doing in Germany after his desertion AND FOR WHAT RESISTANCE?".
NOTE: Maurice Thorez (28 April 1900 – 11 July 1964) was a French politician and longtime leader of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1930 until his death. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister of France from 1946 to 1947. During WW2 the PCF was outlawed by the French government on September 26th, 1939. The Party supported the Soviet Union's tactical treaty with Germany to direct German aggression away from the USSR and toward the United Kingdom and France. Because they were impeding the fight against the Nazis, the Party's publications were banned, and many Party members were interned. Thorez himself had his passport revoked. Shortly thereafter, he was drafted.
Comintern secretary Georgi Dimitrov instructed the French party's leaders to desert after the party was banned. Reluctantly, but dutifully, Thorez deserted on October 4. Thorez arrived in Moscow on November 8, 1939, via Belgium, Stockholm, and Riga. In Moscow, he seems to have been kept on a rather tight leash. In his absence, Thorez was sentenced for desertion on 25 November to six years' imprisonment. On 17 February 1940, he was deprived of his French citizenship.Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the French Communist Party openly declared it would violently resist the German occupation; even before this, the Party organized a demonstration of thousands of students and workers against the occupation on 11 November 1940, and in May 1941 organized a strike of 100,000 miners in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments. During this time, articles written by and ghostwritten for Thorez appeared frequently in the party's underground newspaper, Humanité Clandestine. Each of these letters was signed 'Maurice Thorez, somewhere in France'. It was not until several years after the war that the party admitted that this was false, and that Thorez had been in Moscow for the entire war. In his absence, the affairs of the PCF and of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, the party's resistance movement, in France were organised by his second in command, Jacques Duclos
Price: $120.00
VIF 001
VIF 001
Three broadside communication from Marchal Petain to the people of France, dated September 3, 1942, December 24, 1942 and April 4, 1943. Size 16x24cm, double sided. M
Price: $270.00
WW 154
WW 154
Allied military propaganda against the Vichy regime. M
Price: $90.00
WW 142
WW 142
Early post-war broadsides from the Comite Directeur de Ceux de la Liberation-Vengeance (CLV). n the early post-war period, the CLV transitioned from a clandestine military network into a political and administrative force. These braodsides are praising the value of family and taking care of the elderly, stating "Rebuilding the French Family, Rebuilding a Strong France".
Price: $100.00
WW 141
Broadside calling up reservists (with the number “2” in their ID) in France in 1938. Size 50x63cm. M
Price: $300.00
WW 140
WW 140
Communist broadside from 1942, anti-Vichy. M
Price: $110.00
WW 137
French Communist broadside issued in 1941. M
Price: $90.00
PCA 166
Original poster, preserved on rice paper on back, of Nazi propaganda showing how the Walloons are liberating Europe. Size: 61 x 85 , Chink missing on border.
NOTE: During World War II, the Walloons (the French-speaking people of Belgium) experienced the war in two very different ways. While most suffered under Nazi occupation, thousands of others joined a right-wing political movement and actively collaborated with Germany, fighting on the Eastern Front. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Nazi-sympathizing Walloons were recruited to fight alongside the German army. The Walloon Legion: Formed in July 1941, it was made up of volunteers who were primarily driven by anti-communism and the hope of securing a better political future for Belgium under the "New Order". Léon Degrelle: A prominent Belgian politician who led the fascist Rexist Party, Degrelle volunteered for the Legion. He started as a private and eventually rose to become the commander of the Walloon forces. The Eastern Front: The Walloons were sent to fight the Soviets in Ukraine and the Caucasus. They suffered devastating casualties in the freezing winter conditions and heavy battles. As the war dragged on, the Legion was absorbed into the Nazi Waffen-SS in 1943. Degrelle convinced Nazi leadership that the French-speaking Walloons were "Germanic," allowing them to become an official SS unit known as the Sturmbrigade Wallonien
Price: $600.00