Monday, July 3, 2017

"Our Mother Europe" - What a Postcard Can Tell us About 1940s Europe





This 1942 Vichy French postcard reveals much about the current political state of Europe in the early years of WWII:


  • The United Kingdom is seen “falling victim” to the Americans and Jews
  • Neutral Sweden and Switzerland are supposedly looking longingly at “Our Mother Europe”
  • The chicks have the flags of the Axis powers (Romania, Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco Spain, Vichy France, Hungary, Slovakia?, and Finland)
  • The Post Stamp shows Philippe Petain, Nazi installed leader of Vichy France

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