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383 - A First World War propaganda leaflet 'Die Hefe', 1918, dropped by British forces from unmanned paper balloons across German lines, depicting a figure of Death consuming a glass of German soldiers, recovered from a battlefield by the grandfather of the present owner; with a photograph of the varnished paper hydrogen balloon which dropped the leaflet; and a letter written to German prisoner of war August Glasel from his brother Theophil, also a POW; together with a Second World War German propaganda leaflet 'Dieppe', 1942, dropped by the Germans over southern England, masquerading as an American publication and printed with horrific images of the failed Allied raid on Dieppe
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A First World War propaganda leaflet 'Die Hefe', 1918, dropped by British forces from unmanned paper balloons across German lines, depicting a figure of Death consuming a glass of German soldiers, recovered from a battlefield by the grandfather of the present owner; with a photograph of the varnished paper hydrogen balloon which dropped the leaflet; and a letter written to German prisoner of war August Glasel from his brother Theophil, also a POW; together with a Second World War German propaganda leaflet 'Dieppe', 1942, dropped by the Germans over southern England, masquerading as an American publication and printed with horrific images of the failed Allied raid on Dieppe
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