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The Zeppelin triumph

Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
The Zeppelin triumph
The Zeppelin triumph
The Zeppelin triumph
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Item no
32993
Title
The Zeppelin triumph
Description
"But Mother had done nothing wrong, had she, Daddy?"

"Extract from a German press article on the Zeppelin raids on London:

'The coming autumn nights will be peculiarly favourable for this purpose. London is a defended town.' To encourage the Germans to have no scruples, they are reminded of the English attempt to starve out Germany, and how 'the British press in those early days took a sardonic delight in picturing how famine would become more and more terrible in the German cities; how the starving old men and the sick, and women with their dying infants - the British representatives of culture dwelt with special delight on the shortage of milk - in combination with the other sections of the pining population, after a few months would produce first a social and economic, then military collapse.' The bombings on London, however are not intended to terrify the civil population. They have a quite definite military purpose, well known to the British Admiralty. - Deutsche Tageszeitung, 9 September 1916."
Artist / maker
Date
1916
Size
33 x 22.5 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.