ORANJE BOVEN
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German Oculist, trying on spectacles: “What do you read now?” Dutchman: “Deutschland über Alles.” German Oculist: “That is right: that pair exactly suits you.”
“Oranje Boven” is the Dutch cry which answers to the German “Deutschland über Alles.”
The cartoons reproduced upon the opposite and following pages are selected examples of the series drawn for and published in “The Amsterdam Telegraaf,” at the time when Holland was invaded by an army of spies and secret agents who carried on a vast system of pro-German propaganda. These cartoons represent Raemaekers’ reply.
It was during the publication of these pictures that a price was set upon his head by the German Government, and he was charged by the Dutch Government, at the instance of the representatives of the Central Powers with “endangering the neutrality of Holland,” a form of persecution which had an effect quite opposite to that intended, as it resulted only in drawing the attention of the Allies and other Neutrals to the power and significance of Raemaekers’ cartoons, which was followed by a much wider distribution of his work.
