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    Title

  • Helft, Helft

  • Physical Description

    1 poster : color, facsimile ; 64 x 95 cm

  • Date

    1919

  • 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 is mostly black text on a white background, in a fraktur font. An image of a set of hands in prayer is at the top of the page.

  • Subject

    Posters, Facsimiles

  • Genre

    Political posters; Posters

  • Medium

    Posters, German, 1910-1920

  • Part Of

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

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

This is a poster from the “Notbund”, a racist group founded in Munich by Heinrich Distler. Distler called himself “Germany's most fearless fighter for the purity of German blood," and he and other propogandistic groups spread allegations of widespread crimes, especially sexual crimes, committed by Senegalese and other African soldiers serving in the French Army during the French occupation of the Rhineland between 1918-1930. Die schwarze Schande or Die schwarze Schmach ("the Black Shame" or "the Black Disgrace") were terms used by the right-wing press to stoke moral panic. Many Germans at the time found the occupation by African soldiers to be particularly humiliating.

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Citation

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