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    Title

  • Antikomintern

  • Physical Description

    1 poster : color, facsimile ; 83.5 x 119 cm

  • Date

    1937

  • Place of Publication

    München

  • 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 shows an image of a 1937 map, specifically the eastern border between Germany and Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, with arrows pointing to where major German cities are to the west. A tank and other signs of war are superimposed over the map. Text is on the top and bottom of the poster.

  • Subject

    Communist International; Anti-communism, Germany; Posters, Facsimiles

  • Genre

    Political posters; Posters

  • Medium

    Posters, German, 1930-1940

  • 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

The "Comintern" (Communist International) was an international organization that united all communist parties, founded in 1919 on Lenin's initiative. The international brigades against Franco in the Spanish war of 1936-1939 were recruited from Comintern. The "Anti-Comintern," founded in Berlin in 1934 to fight communism, initially served as simple propoganda. Soon, the Anti-Comintern groups became politically aligned with Japan (1936) and Italy (1937). German rearmament in 1938 was justified by the supposed growing threat of Communism from neighboring countries (even though Poland and Czechoslovakia were not Communist at the time).

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Citation

Antikomintern, Leo Baeck Institute, r (f) DD 232.5 A7 1963 [V.12].