The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
German First World War poster depicting workers marching in the light of dawn. The poster title translates from the German as; 'The National Assembly is the dawning of our Socialist Republic'. The German Weimar National Assembly (German: Weimarer Nationalversammlung) governed Germany from February 6 1919 to June 6 1920 and drew up the new constitution which governed Germany from 1919 to 1933, technically remaining in effect even until the end of Nazi rule in 1945. The vote in the National Assembly still reflected public opinion as it was in November and December 1918. Those who sympathised with the revolution and the republic, the Socialist and democratic parties, achieved a great success. The Majority Socialists polled eleven and a half million votes in the National Assembly. Nearly fourteen million Socialist votes were recorded out of a total of thirty million. The Weimar National Assembly and the strong Socialist support was seen as a symbol of the new Germany whose ideal was no longer to be governed by militarism, but by the traditions of the philosophers Goethe and Schiller.This poster reflects this sentiment, with workers united walking across a field holding their tools, while the sun rises behind them, symbolising the 'new dawn' and a new Germany under Socialism. German First World War and subsequent posters often extolled an overt nationalism, strong expressions of ancient Germanic spirit or symbolic imagery to address propaganda objectives.
This political poster comments on the ordinary man depicted with a trowl on hand laying a foundation stone against a beflagged background. The relates 'The National Assembly, the foundation stone of t
German anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster depicting a starving woman holding the body of her dead child. The poster translates from the German as: 'Bolshevism means hunger and death, but never will it l
German poster depicting an ogre-like figure (symbolising Bolshevism) driving people in the east from their homes. The title of this poster transaltes as "The fatherland is in danger" and further text
German anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster depicting a starving woman holding the body of her dead child. The poster translates as: 'Bolshevism means hunger and death, but never will it lead to peace'. T
This poster was produced in Germany to convey the government's concern about the falling birth-rate. The most prominant figure is a mother holding her baby. She dominates the foreground. In the backg
battlefield, tree planting ceremony; poster depicting a young woman with a rosette in her hair, most probably intended to be Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic, planting a tree over a grave o
