Polish Gallery

WW2 Poster -- Formation Signs

Formation signs, dated 8 May 1945. Chromolithograph poster, showing various formation signs of infantry and armoured divisions, brigades, groups, including Airborne TPS, GHQ Liaison Regiment, Polish Armed Division, Czech Independent Armoured Brigade Group, 1 Independent Belgian Brigade Group. Date: 1945

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Kaiser Wilhelm II presenting medals, Warsaw, WW1

Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, presenting Iron Crosses to troops in Warsaw, Poland, soon after the city was captured by the Austro-German Army during the First World War. Date: September 1915

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Orteliuss map of Poland, 1570

Ortelius's map of Poland. This map is from the 1570 first edition of Theatrum orbis terrarum ('Theatre of the World'). Drawn by the Flemish mapmaker Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), and published by Gilles Coppens de Diest in Antwerp, this collection of 53 maps is considered to be the first true modern atlas

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