The original photograph shows the German leaders Hindenburg,
the Kaiser and Ludendorff, looking at military maps at German headquarters.
The French paper "Les Annales" of January
27, 1918 retouched in a map of the Balkans and parts of Russia to show
Germany's alleged megalomania. They did not forget to make the faces look
more brutal and sinister
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The picture allegedly shows
German machine gunners driving their own comrades into battle in Turkey,
in a battle for the "Bosporus" from "Folkets Avis"
April 1915
The Danish paper Aalborger "Venstreblad"-
also of April 1915 -puts the incident in Western Europe in Yser, 3,000
km away from the Bosporus
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This photo was distributed as a postcard by Jews in
Russia with the following caption:
"Mother and child cruelly murdered by gangs in
Odessa 1905"
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This photo first appeared in
the German paper "Berliner Lokalanzeiger" of June 9, 1914 and
shows the victors of a horse race. The same photo, with a retouched background,
was published in the Russian newspaper "Wes Mir" with the title
"The German robbers of Warsaw" and the caption of "A group
of German looters, their hands filled with stolen goods"
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The above illustration appears in the German paper
"Ost und West" of May/June 1906, depicting forbidden artwork
in Russian of a Jewish pogrom The French paper "Le Journal" of
February 12, 1915 used it to illustrate "The passage of the German
barbarians"
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