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    Title

  • Kamerad, hilf mir!

  • Physical Description

    1 poster : color, facsimile ; 60 x 90 cm

  • Date

    1919

  • 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 features an image of a German soldier struggling with a vicious raptor. Text overlays the image and is featured in the lower half of the design. The color red outlines the image and text

  • Subject

    World War, 1914-1918>, Aftermath, Germany; Posters, Facsimiles; Anti-communism, Germany, 1910-1920; Germany, History, Revolution, 1918

  • 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

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Biographical/Historical Information

A struggling soldier asks for help in his fight against “Bolshevism”, “Danger from Poland”, and “Famine”. The soldier is part of a “German Defense Division”, which – like the “Freikorps” - was a group formed as an auxiliary police force in post-war Germany in late 1918.

The Freikorps was made up predominantly of unsettled First World War army veterans, students, and those with right-wing, nationalist tendencies. Many units of the Freikorps proved little more than violent private armies, answerable to none but their commanders as they sought to crush communist-inspired civil unrest. Nevertheless, the ruling SDP viewed them as a necessary evil and ordered them to suppress left-wing insurrection in places such as Berlin, Munich, and the disputed territory of Upper Silesia (Poland).

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Citation

Kamerad, hilf mir!, Leo Baeck Institute, r (f) DD 232.5 A7 1963 [II.8].