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    Title

  • Stresemanns Vermächtnis

  • Physical Description

    1 poster : color, facsimile ; 61 x 86 cm

  • Date

    1929

  • Place of Publication

    Berlin

  • Notes

    Poster is a reproduction from the book "Anschläge : deutsche Plakate als Dokumente der Zeit, 1900-1960 ; 122 Blatt in den Druck- und Papierfarben der Originale," cataloged in the LBI Library under call number r (f) DD 232.5 A7 1963.

  • Summary

    Poster is all black text on a white background, in a fraktur font. There is a black band bordering the poster.

  • Subject

    World War, 1914-1918, Reparations; Reconstruction (1914-1939), Germany; Posters, Facsimiles

  • Genre

    Posters; Political posters

  • Medium

    Posters, German, 1920-1930

  • Part Of

    Anschläge: Deutsche Plakate als Dokumente der Zeit 1900-1960, r (f) DD 232.5 A7 1963

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Biographical/Historical Information

This poster presents factually sound but propagandistically weak information about the Young Plan (an American-led plan to lower German's reparation obligations after World War I). The poster raises the question of war guilt, as the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP, or German Natioanl Party) had tried to oblige the Reich government to abrogate the war guilt article of the Versailles Treaty with their own referendum, the so-called Freiheitsgesetz or "Freedom Act" of 1929. This purely utopian "Freedom Act" is defeated by 323 votes to 82. Alfred Hugenberg, the owner of a large press and broadcasting company, was chairman of the German National Party since the fall of 1928 and had pushed for the Freedom Act referendum.

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Citation

Stresemanns Vermächtnis, Leo Baeck Institute, r (f) DD 232.5 A7 1963 [IV.4].