Speaking of Timetables
- Title:
- Speaking of Timetables
- Alternate Title:
- Speaking of Timetables
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1944
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1323.01
- File Name:
- PJM_1323_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1940 - 1959
- Work Type:
- leaflets
- Materials/Techniques:
- color printing
- Subject:
- Satirical
World War II
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 19 x 13 on sheet 21 x 15 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- A gruesome German propaganda leaflet, aimed at allied forces at the end of the battle of Casino in May 1944. The allies had landed at Salerno in September 1943, and had been slowed in the fight to move north by terrain, weather and fierce German resistance. As the text on the verso notes, it had taken 8 months to gain 123 kilometers, and casualties had been high ("About 1000 casualties for each kilometre!").
The death's head on the map holds a calipers to measure the progress so far and apply it to the allied goal of occupying all of Italy and moving on Berlin. Based on the rate of success through May 1944, the leaflet concludes: "Probable arrival in Northern Italy about April 1948. And the price? Further 700,000 men lost as dead or wounded... Probable arrival in Berlin in or about 1952. And the price? Another 600,000 men dead, wounded or taken prisoners! That means another 7 long years of bloodshed! And that means you will never live to see it!"
The same point was made by a large German poster published at the same time, making the point that the speed of the allies' advance from Salerno to Casino had been literally slower than the pace of a garden snail. See ID #2180, It's a Long Way to Rome.
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- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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