How often Santa brings a bag of heavy weaponry for good girls and boys.
Hammer the Hammer
Let’s take a look at some interesting Christmas-time advertisements. Here’s a 1905 ad for a pistol. A bargain at $3.00.
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From the great David Warren (of davidwarrenonline.com):
Love is, I hold, the great teacher; but pain is the great teaching assistant.
счастливого Рождества!
A Russian Christmas card from the Eastern Front in 1915.
Finland 1940
Finland, because of its longstanding quarrel with the Soviet Union, allied itself with Nazi Germany. For such a small country it put up a creditable resistance to the Red Army in the “Winter War”. “Christmas Greetings” reads this message depicting a cavalry soldier in a snowy landscape.
A Merry Ustase Christmas
Croatian nationalism took an ugly turn during World War II when it allied itself with Nazi Germany. The Ustase movement was a fascist hyper-Catholic hate group that fought against other ethnic minorities and the Yugoslav partisan movement.
Qui vive?
In 1915 Père Noël visited French poilus in the trenches bringing, naturally, wine.
Shouldn’t there be an apostrophe in “Seasons”?
A card from the “Fighting First”, aka the “Big Red One”, the American First Army of World War II.
No, he’s not Father Christmas
It was hard to be jolly in the trenches of the Western Front in 1916 but this artist from the 3rd Canadian Pioneers, an engineering unit, tried.
Doughboy with a bomb
American soldiers in World War I were called “doughboys”, for reasons that are still obscure. Here one of the lads holds an artillery shell while wishing you a Merry Christmas.
