11 Vintage WW 1 Propaganda Postcards (Kaiser’s Head Chopped Off, Dung Pile) for Sale

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11 Vintage WW 1 Propaganda Postcards (Kaiser’s Head Chopped Off, Dung Pile) For Sale

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11 Vintage WW 1 Propaganda Postcards (Kaiser’s Head Chopped Off, Dung Pile):
$125.00

Rather impressive collection of 11 different postcards, all of which show various propaganda relating to World War I. Most rare is the one that references the “dum dum”. Google dum dum bombs and World War I and read about this controversial new (for the time) ballistic technology. Another very rare card is the one that depict German Kaiser as a pile of dung and a soldiers boot is about to step in the pile!
A beautiful start on collecting these rare postcards. Historically some of the most interesting postcards you can own.
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Here\'s a blurb I found on the internet about \"dum dum\" bombs:

“Dum Dums\": A German Propaganda Offensive↑

Soon after the outbreak of war, German newspapers began to accuse the French, along with the mythical Belgianfrancs tireurs(free shooters), of using \"dum dum\" (i.e. expanding) bullets. Their grounds for doing so were flimsy, but soon the British army was embarrassed by an official German complaint that it had issued expanding revolver ammunition. The charge was directed at the .455 Mk IV round, which featured a flat-nosed, unjacketed \"man-stopper\" bullet. This was hastily withdrawn from frontline service, but other unjacketed .455 cartridges – also likely to expand upon impact – remained in service.

The legal and moral issue was clouded by the fact that similar projectiles were used on other war fronts. Several armies were forced by the exigencies of war to issue elderly rifles, chambered for gunpowder-filled cartridges firing unjacketed bullets. The Turks, Russians, Italians and (in Africa) the Germans used these bullets in action. While it was accepted that such bullets were not outlawed by the Hague conventions, they did expand upon impact, and could cause worse wounds than any pistol bullet, expanding or not.

A second German allegation was that the standard British .303 Mk VII rifle bullet was specifically intended to have its nose broken off to form a \"dum dum\". Indeed they went so far as to claim that the finger-grip of the magazine cut-off fitted to the Mk III Lee-Enfield rifle was a device by which this illegal modification could be effected. In this case there was no substance to the allegations.