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Big Bertha's Testament

Propaganda leaflet, 1918

© Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger Viollet

False testimony was a fairly common form of propaganda. "Lerthabem" was a deformation of the name "Bertha" in the slang of Parisian butchers, the "louchébem."

Ville de Paris