WW I flags as seen in WW I propaganda posters

[Philippe]

Flags of the Central Powers as they appear in German and Austrian propaganda posters. Use the MediaFire link for looking at the images more closely.

This is a German poster welcoming Bulgaria to the Central Powers. Austria is the yellow-black bicolor and Bulgaria is a plain tricolor.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/528gobz54z3gdpc/Central-powers-flags.jpg

Another German poster. The colors of the Bulgarian flag are in an unusual (and probably incorrect) order.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/l20m020d92dluqp/89376.jpg

Another German poster. If you look closely all the flags are there, and use the same color scheme as in the first poster.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/2jntc1uv3tdgjje/germ120.jpg

An Austrian propaganda poster. When they needed to portray their own flag, they apparently thought it was the bicolor of the black-yellow monarchy (so-called after the landfarben of the Hapsburg-Lorraine dynasty).

http://www.mediafire.com/view/cctja50x1ed11g8/aus21.jpg

A German propaganda poster showing the original three Central Powers. Once again Austria uses the plain yellow-black bicolor and Germany uses the plain black-white-red tricolor.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/fjsfqoda6l60s3a/germ156.jpg

[Philippe]

A pair of interesting Russian propaganda posters. One gets the impression that neither the audience nor the artist were all that familiar with the flags of the Central Powers.

Click on the MediaFire link to see a larger version of the image.

The Austrian flag looks like the 1894 Naval Ensign which may or may not have double as the national flag, perhaps at embassies overseas. The German flag is the Naval Ensign which was also sometimes used by the army.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/x3fe8jl283m8mud/kp06755.jpg

The artist may have been unsure of what flag to use for Austria-Hungary, so he used the WW I Naval Ensign. Because he also wasn't sure that anyone would recognize the flag, the artist wrote out the name of its country in Cyrillic lettering across the bottom stripe. The bottom stripe of the Hungarian half of the flag is in a different color than the bottom stripe of the Austrian half. The flag is correct in that the Austrian half occupies the hoist (against the flagpole), whereas the Hungarian half occupies the fly (the outside).

http://www.mediafire.com/view/4mu14f2u33lu1fd/Russian%20poster.jpg