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Diggers! You Are Defending Alamein Box! What About Port Darwin? and Aussies! The Yankees Are Having A Jolly Good Time In Your Country. And You? [WWII German Propaganda]

c1942. Pair of leaflets, linocut with letterpress type, 20.8 x 16.6cm (approx. each). Repainted portions, repaired tears, creases and old folds. Linen-backed.

The leaflets, possibly produced in the Middle East, illustrate the Australian 9th Division’s Formation Sign of a platypus above a boomerang. The leaflets were German propaganda designed especially for Australian troops defending El Alamein during 1942. Held in Australian War Memorial (London), and Montmorency/Eltham RSL Sub Branch (Victoria).

The 9th Division (also known as “The Rats of Tobruk”) was a “division of the Australian Army that served during World War II. It was the fourth division raised for the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF). The distinctions of the division include it being: in front line combat longer, cumulatively, than any other Australian division; one of the Australian military's most decorated formations; the only 2nd AIF division formed in the United Kingdom, from infantry brigades and support units formed in Australia; praised by both Allied and Axis generals, including Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel, as well as non-Australian military historians, and; like the 6th and 7th Divisions, being one of only a few Allied army units to serve in both the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres.” Ref: Wiki.

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Item #CL206-55

Price (AUD): $2,200.00  other currencies