Two Books on one CD

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 1. Raemaekers' Cartoons
by Louis Raemaekers,
(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916)

A propaganda publication devised by the War Department Propaganda Bureau in response to Germany's effective propaganda campaign. Louis Raemaekers' cartoons being more effective than mere words.

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2. RAEMAEKERS’
CARTOONS

WITH ACCOMPANYING NOTES BY
WELL-KNOWN ENGLISH WRITERS

WITH AN APPRECIATION FROM H. H. ASQUITH,
PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1916

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Louis Raemaekers (April 6, 1869 in Roermond - July 26, 1956 in Scheveningen) was a Dutch painter and cartoonist for the Amsterdam Telegraaf during World War 1, noted for his anti-German stance.

He was born in Roermond, Netherlands in 1869 as the son of an ethnically German newspaper editor. He worked for the Algemeen Handelsblad from 1906 to 1909. His graphic cartoons depicted the rule of the German military in Belgium, portrayed the Germans as barbarians and Kaiser Wilhelm II as an ally of Satan. The German government offered a reward of 12,000 guilders for Raemaekers, dead or alive. The German government forced the Dutch government to place Raemaekers on trial for 'endangering Dutch neutrality', but a jury acquitted him.

He later left for England because of the bounty on his head. There, his work was published in The Times and in various propaganda books.

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Introduction

Louis Raemaekers will stand out for all time as one of the supreme figures which the Great War has called into being. His genius has been enlisted in the service of mankind, and his work, being entirely sincere and untouched by racial or national prejudice, will endure; indeed, it promises to gain strength as the years advance. When the intense passions, which have been awakened by this world struggle, have faded away, civilization will regard the war largely through these wonderful drawings.

Before the war had been in progress many weeks the cartoons in the Amsterdam Telegraaf attracted attention in the capitals of Europe, many leading newspapers reproducing them. The German authorities, quick to realize their full significance, did all in their power to suppress them. Through German intrigue Raemaekers has been charged in the Dutch Courts with endangering the neutrality of Holland—and acquitted. A price has been set on his head, should he ever venture over the border.

When he crossed to England, his wife received anonymous post-cards, warning her that his ship would certainly be torpedoed in the North Sea. The Cologne Gazette, in a leading article on Holland, threatens that country that "after the War Germany will settle accounts with Holland, and for each calumny, for each cartoon of Raemaekers, she will demand payment with the interest that is due to her." Not since Saul and the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah fighting with the Philistines has so unexpected a champion arisen. With brush and pencil this Dutch painter will do even as David did with the smooth stone out of the brook: he will destroy the braggart Goliath, who, strong in his own might, defies the forces of the living God.

When Mr. Raemaekers came to London in December, he was received by the Prime Minister, and was entertained at a complimentary luncheon by the Journalists of the British capital. Similar honour was conferred on him on his second visit. He was the guest of honour at the Savage Club; the Royal Society of Miniature Painters elected him an Honorary Member. But it has been left to France to pay the most fitting recognition to his genius and to his services in the cause of freedom and truth. The Cross of the Legion of Honour has been presented to him, and on his visit to Paris this month a special reception is to be held in his honour at La Sorbonne, which is the highest purely intellectual reward Europe can confer on any man.

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List of Cartoons
 (each accomapnied by a Descriptive Notes Page)

Portrait of Louis Raemaekers

Christendom After Twenty Centuries
A Stable peace
The Massacre of the Innocents
Bernhardiism
From Liège to Aix-La-Chapelle
Spoils for the Victors
The Very Stones Cry Out
Satan's Partner
Thrown to the Swine
The Land Mine
"For Your Motherland"
The German Loan
Europe, 1916
The Next to Be Kicked Out—Dumba's Master
The Friendly Visitor
"To Your Health, Civilization!"
Fox Tirpitz Preaching to the Geese
The Prisoners
It's Unbelievable
Kreuzland, Kreuzland Über Alles
The Ex-convict
Miss Cavell
The Hostages
King Albert's Answer to the Pope
The Gas Fiend
The German Tango
The Zeppelin Triumph
Keeping Out the Enemy
The German Offer
The Wolf Trap
Ahasuerus II
Our Candid Friend
Peace and Intervention
Little Red Riding Hood
The Sea Mine
"Seduction"
Murder on the High Seas
Ad Finem
"U'S"
Mater Dolorosa
"Gott Strafe Italien!"
Serbia
"Just a Moment—I'm Coming"
The Holy War
"Gott Mit Uns"
The Widows of Belgium
The Harvest Is Ripe
"Unmasked"
The Great Surprise
Thou Art the Man!
Sympathy
The Refugees
"The Junker"
"Au Milieu De Fantômes Tristes Et Sans Nombre"
Bluebeard's Chamber
The Raid
Better a Living Dog Than a Dead Lion
"The Burden of the Intolerable Day"
Eagle in Hen-run
The Future
Christ or Odin?
Ferdinand
Juggernaut
Michael and the Marks
Their Beresina
New Peace Offers
The Shields of Rosselaere
The Obstinacy of Nicholas
The Order of Merit
The Marshes of Pinsk
God With Us
Ferdinand the Chameleon
The Latin Sisters Horace
Misunderstood
Prosperity Reigns in Flanders
The Last Hohenzollern
Piracy
"Weeping, She Hath Wept" Father
Military Necessity
Liberté! Liberté, Chérie!
I—"A Knavish Piece of Work"
II—"Sisyphus,—His Stone"
Concrete Foundations
Pallas Athene
The Wonders of Culture
"Folk Who Do Not Understand Them"
On The Way to Calais
Von Bethmann-Hollweg and Truth
Van Tromp and De Ruyter
War and Christ
Barbed Wire
The Higher Politics
The Loan Game
A War of Rapine
The Dutch Junkers
The War Makers
The Christmas of Kultur, A.D. 1915
Serbia Horace
The Last of the Race
The Curriculum
The Dutch Journalist to His Belgian Confrère
A Bored Critic
"The Peace Woman"
The Self-satisfied Burgher
The Decadent
Liquid Fire
Nish and Paris
Gott Strafe England!
The Pacificist Kaiser (The Confederates)
Dinant
"Hesperia" (Wounded First)
Gallipoli
The Beginning of the Expiation
The Shirkers
One of the Kaiser's Many Mistakes
Belgium in Holland
Serbia
Jackals in the Political Field
A Letter from the German Trenches
His Master's Voice
Hun Generosity Horace
Easter, 1915
Pan Germanicus as Peace Maker
Gott Mit Uns
Our Lady of Antwerp
Deportation
The German Band
Arcades Ambo Horace
"Is It You, Mother?"
The Fate of Flemish Art at the Hands of Kultur
The Graves of All His Hopes
"My Sixth Son is Now Lying Here—Where Are Yours?"
Bunkered
Gott Strafe Verdun
The Last Throw
The Zeppelin Bag
"Come In, Michael, I Have Had a Long Sleep"
Five on a Bench
What About Peace, Lads?
The Liberators
Tom Thumb and the Giant
"We Have Finished Off the Russians"
Muddle Through
My Enemy Is My Best Friend
How I Deal With the Small Fry
The Two Eagles
London Inside the Savoy
London Outside the Savoy
The Invocation

A fascinating example of wartime propaganda, with accompanying descriptions by famous British writers such a GK Chesterton and John Buchan.

(All illustrations much reduced in scale for the website)