The First World War decimated Europe's agriculture, food production, and distribution. The result was counterfeiting packaged foods with chemicals, or even inedible substances. In Brussels, an exposition warns people against fake food.
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"Remember Belgium"
Ellsworth Young (American, 1866-1952)
color lithograph poster, 1918
« Souvenez-vous de la Belgique - Achetez des obligations - Quatrième emprunt pour la Liberté »
Weapons of Mass Seduction: The Art of Propaganda
May 5, 2018 – October 7, 2018
deYoung Museum, San Francisco
20180705_031006
This installation inside the Arms Museum of Dinant attempts to describe the feeling during the battle of Dinant and all the atrocities of German soldiers during the systematic attack against assumed civilian resisters. During the Rape of Belgium, the historical term regarding the treatment of civilians during the 1914–18 German invasion and occupation of Belgium during World War I, Dinant suffered the largest German massacre, with 674 unarmed Belgian civilians killed.