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    Title

  • Dolchstoß

  • Physical Description

    1 poster : color, facsimile ; 32 x 47 cm

  • Date

    1924

  • 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 depicts on the top half an illustration of a masked man clad in red, stabbing the back of a German soldier. The lower half of the poster contains text in fraktur typescript.

  • Subject

    Posters, Facsimiles

  • Place

    Germany, History, 1920-1933

  • Genre

    Political posters; Posters

  • Medium

    Posters, German, 1920-1930

  • Part Of

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

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The poster of Germany’s Deutschnationale Volkspartei (German National People's Party) for the upcoming elections on December 7, 1924, warns about the Social Democrats’ second “Dolchstoß” ("stab in the back”) that would make Germans to slaves of the Entente (Europe’s alliance of France and Great Britain). – The original tale of the “Dolchstoß” – a stab in the German army’s back – began circulating during WW I, when it became clear that Germany would be militarily defeated, alleging that revolutionary socialist and Jewish activities had broken the will of the German army.

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Citation

Dolchstoß, Leo Baeck Institute, r (f) DD 232.5 A7 1963 [II.22].