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Auction History Result 2k030 DER LETZTE DEUTSCHE KRIEGSGEFANGENE 33x70 German special poster 1932 last German WWI P.O.W.! Date Sold 12/13/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Unfolded German Special Poster (measures 33 1/4" x 70 1/4" [84 x 178 cm]) (Learn More) Der Letzte Deutsche Kriegsgefangene (literally translates to "The Last German Prisoner of War"), the 1932 German poster promoting a biographical story to appear in a Berlin newspaper. The story was about French-born German soldier Alfons Paoli Schwartz, who served in counterintelligence during World War I (WWI) and was arrested by the French near the end of the war. He was charged with treason, and sent to the French penal colony on Devil's Island (off the coast of French Guiana), and was finally released in 1932. Note that many Hollywood films have been set on or mentioned Devil's Island, including Papillon, We're No Angels, Strange Cargo and more. The First World War marked a shift from a 19th century, relatively ad hoc management of prisoners of war, to the 20th century's sophisticated prisoner of war camp systems, with their bureaucratic management, rationalization of the labor use of prisoners, and complex modern logistical and security apparatuses. It also led to transnational, global systems of captivity. WWI saw an ongoing struggle by those activists who sought to humanize captivity, to uphold existing international law and to deliver material aid to prisoners who needed it. A wide range of groups were involved in this process. Neutral states took on the role of "protecting power" for particular prisoner nationalities at the outbreak of the conflict. In 1914, for example, the United States accepted responsibility to act as the protecting power for British prisoners of war in Germany and Germans in the United Kingdom. WWI captivity was a checkered balance sheet of appalling negligence, forced labour and the systematization of modern incarceration systems that ensured that in western Europe at least, the majority of captives survived. It was a fundamental element of the 20th century's first experience of total war, as important as the trenches, both in terms of the numbers affected and its legacy in terms of new attitudes to the rights of states to incarcerate and coerce those perceived as the "enemy". If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this advertising poster was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. Because each of the pieces have a plastic strip attached (see below), we could not join the photos together without cropping out the plastic strip from the bottom piece. Before a restorer could join these two pieces together into a single poster, they would have to remove the plastic strip from the bottom section (and of course, they would remove it from the top section as well). Condition: very good. Both sections were never folded. It has a strip of plastic with holes attached to the back of the top border of each section (no doubt this was done as a way of hanging this poster with others on racks, and being able to easily access any of them). The plastic strips could be removed by a professional or talented amateur, or of course, the excess plastic could simply be trimmed off. Other than the plastic strips, the two sections of the poster are in excellent condition, with minor blank border wear! Learn More about condition grades 
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