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Description: | whole: cross pattée, crudely cast in iron in the form of a German Iron Cross, with a small supension ring at the tip of
the upper vertical arm
text: 'FOR' (upper vertical arm) & ' KULTUR' (horizontal arms)
A British First World War anti-German propaganda medal exploiting the German Army's excesses, committed in Belgian and
French towns and cities on or near the Western Front, between August and October 1914. Jones and Howell (in 'Popular Arts of the First
World War') describe this item as one of a series of 'joke Iron Crosses made in Britain bearing the names of Belgian towns bombarded by the
Germans'. The legend 'FOR KULTUR' is a scornful pun on 'the Kaiser's claim to be spreading culture'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Alleged & 8/1914 - 10/1914 Western Front & Atrocities German commemorative First World War propaganda | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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