Das wehrlose Deutschland poster
Extent and Medium
oversize folder
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Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022.
Scope and Content
A German propaganda poster in the form of a simplified, political-style map propagating a thesis about the military threat faced by a disarmed Germany after World War I. It was authored by Erich Haferkorn and published by praktische Schulmann, Stuttgart in 1934. The poster, titled "Der Wehrlose Deutschland ("The defenseless Germany"), was used in German schools to show how the border countries, in particular France, Poland, England, and Czechoslovakia, were armed and a threat to Germany.
Subjects
- Germany
Genre
- Document
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