22 Items Tagged

Propaganda

Jinning, Taiwan

Beishan Broadcasting Wall

These large speakers once broadcasted propaganda across the strait to the People’s Republic of China.

Pistol concealed inside a book, resistance fighters had to conceal weapons for operations

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Resistance Museum

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

Podcast: Beishan Broadcast Wall

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team August 24, 2021

'Arbeit Macht Frei' - the entrance to camp in the Terezin fortress

Terezín, Czechia

Theresienstadt (Terezín Concentration Camp)

Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.

The final frontier.

Early Chinese Trick Photography Sent Chubby Babies Into Space

Inside a historian’s collection of endearing, goofy early 20th-century portraits.

Sabrina Imbler February 20, 2020

Rathen Open Air Stage.

Rathen, Germany

Rathen Open Air Stage

This stone amphitheater was once part of Nazi Germany's plan to promote propaganda.

A bust of Lenin made from sugar.

Lenin Museum

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

Masonic Lodge

Salamanca, Spain

Documentary Center of Historical Memory

An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.

Two children behind the lens in Moscow, from the inaugral issue of <em>Sovetskoe foto</em> (<em>Soviet Photo</em>) magazine.

The Soviet Union Encouraged Children to Take Pictures, But Rarely Showed Them

“Just as every forward-looking comrade must have a watch, so must he be able to handle a camera."

Noor Al-Samarrai February 26, 2019

Parain's <em>Baba-Yaga</em> was influenced by avant garde art and traditional folk tales.

The Soviet Children's Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda

How folk tales and traditional life snuck into avant-garde kids' books in the 1930s.

Sarah Laskow November 1, 2018

Beishan Broadcast Station, on Kinmen Island in Taiwan.

A Giant Speaker in Taiwan Is About to Switch on Again

Beishan Broadcast Station, which once blasted propaganda across the ocean, has found another purpose.

Cara Giaimo August 24, 2018

<em>Untitled photo, possibly related to: Mr. Tronson, farmer near Wheelock, North Dakota.</em>

How a Hole Punch Shaped Public Perception of the Great Depression

The notorious photo editor who introduced "America to Americans."

Aïda Amer May 9, 2018

<em>We Shall Liberate Taiwan!</em>, by the Hongyingbi (Red Eagle Brush) unit of the Air Force Unit of Nanjing Military Region, 1969.

The Art of Chinese Propaganda Posters

A glimpse inside the collection of Shaomin Li, artist and dissident.

Anika Burgess February 23, 2018

News revised by Mao Zedong

Yanan Shi, China

Yan'an News Memorial Hall

A quiet ode to Communist China's propaganda machine, including a newspaper edited by Mao Zedong's own hand.

The USS Pueblo, Pyongyang

Pyongyang, North Korea

The USS Pueblo

Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.

Even the U.S.A. got a dose of carrot propaganda.

Why Wartime England Thought Carrots Could Give You Night Vision

The belief that carrots improve your eyesight dates back to World War II propaganda.

Anne Ewbank October 25, 2017

Watch Anti-Hitler Vegetable Propaganda

During World War II, American cannery workers were urged to "beet Hitler."

Molly McBride Jacobson November 23, 2016

Freiheitsglocke

Berlin, Germany

Freedom Bell

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.