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Picture postcard of the Esperanto movement, around 1910

The picture postcard shows a balloon and basket, to which a green and a white flag, symbols for the Esperanto and peace movements, are attached.

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    Peace and language – peace and the Esperanto movement

    In the decades before the outbreak of the First World War there were close contacts between the Esperanto and peace movements. The overlaps in terms of personalities and content led the historian Bernhard Tuider to speak of “parallel movements”.