Poster

Remember Belgium

Poster; "Remember Belgium Buy Bonds Fourth Liberty Loan", depicts silhouettes of a young girl being dragged away by a spike helmeted and mustached German with a rifle against a background of flames, 6-B artist Ellsworth Young, printed by United States Printing & Lithograph Co, N.Y, WWI.

also 1954.176.032, 1957.034.039, 1958.182.135, 1960.001.176, 1960.001.177, 1960.001.295, 1960.001.296, 1960.001.297

The phrase "Remember Belgium" refers to the horror felt by Americans in the aftermath of the German invasion of Belgium in 1914. Newspaper accounts of the atrocities committed by the German forces as they marched through the small neutral country shocked the American people and solidified the image of the enemy as savage and barbaric "Huns".

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