Hey all. it has been a long time between drinks in getting back on the darn computer... Good though, as it means I have been dioramaring flat out... Question is, have a lil French/Belgian village dio half done, and have space assigned for a propaganda poster on the wall of a bomb wrecked townhouse. Setting is post Normandy breakout, (with M4) but wondering if that would mean there would be Nazi posters, as of occupation of France, or French? (Not allied I would imagine...)
Also, and this is getting really specific, can anyone confirm that lead was used for downpipes in that era, and did the ones cut through the footpath to the kerbing channel (as opposed to just spilling onto the footpath) have a round penetration in the kerb, or was it square/rectangular? Any help appreciated

Well, as for the propaganda posters, you can "Google" it. As for the pipes, I have no idea. Thanks for your time.

Ola Honeycut

Check out this link:
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters2.htm

This site has a lot of german posters from all over the war, Even Pre WW2. Just look wich posters are in the years that you depict in your dio and you`ll find enough.

Hope this answers your question

You can also try Ronny's site
http://users.pandora.be/ronny.noben/website/index.htm

Tnx Scott for mentioning my site, I just realised that my Belgian posters are offline, I just remade the link

Thanks for all your help lads. Question that was not fully answered though was as to what existing posters would be displayed at the time of the allied liberation of France. Did the Germans use their own Waffen SS/panzer/Hitler posters in occupied countries? Want to show it in a ragged state on a building corner...The links you supplied were of great use thanks!

Ola Hunnycut

At the time the Allies were planning the invasion the germans already knew that the Allies were up to something. A lot of the posters in occupied countries at that time had all sorts of depressing messages to either the people of the occupied country or the invasion army and had as goal to get down the morale of the Enemy. Maybe you know the Poster the Germans made when the Allies landed at the Beaches of Italy. When the Allies were moving very slowly up north to Rome the Germans released a Poster with the Message: "It`s a long way to Rome" Depicting a Snail with the Brit and the American flag crawling to Rome. Everybody knows that a Snail is not the quickest thing in tne world. Depressing and demoralising. As the Allies were nearing the end the Germans started to make messages like nobody wants to die in the last 5 minutes. They were right about that. the Allies knew the End of war was getting closer and closer and nobody wanted to die with the End in sight.
Another way the germans were applying their propaganda was to give the inhabitants of the country in question to make them believe that the Allies were the worst thing that could happen to them. or that the Invasio of the Americans were nothing more then an absolute useless loss of men from their side (unneccessary bloody)

Sadly I can`t find the correct posters of the above mentioned. If I find them I will give a shout.
Or maybe somebody else knows exactly where they can get the posters that I`m talking about and he is so willing to post them

you could have some german recruiting posters for the french SS as for lead pipes I dont think so it would more likley be cast iron as lead was expensive

Here I found quite a couple of posters which might suit you:
http://www.propagandaposter.com/pages/sales%20gallery.html