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(22) Von der Goltz Pacha et le bec-de-gaz d'Erzeroem, 1916.
Translated as The Orient Express, and reprinted in Kultur in Cartoons.
Charcoal, watercolor, and graphite.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-09428 (22)
During World War I, Freiherr Colmar Von de Goltz, known in Turkey as "Goltz Pasha," ruthlessly pursued German aims against the British. However he and his Ottoman allies could not resist advancing Russian forces. Dutch cartoonist Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956) portrays the battle of Erzurum as a literal confrontation between Goltz and the Russian army. Raemaekers produced fiercely anti-German cartoons during World War I for De Talegraaf and faced trial for compromising Dutch neutrality. Although acquitted, the Germans put a bounty on his head, and he had to flee to England. |