Party official Wall Newspaper - Poster of the NSDAP | Kremner, Hannes

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Artist/Maker	Reich Propaganda Office of the NSDAP (issued by) Franz Eher & Sons (publishers) Kremner, Hannes (editor)
Place of origin	Germany (made)

As a means of spreading a message, posters have been effectively used as "wall newspapers", serving as public notices. This text-heavy propaganda poster was meant to inform the German public about threats from the enemy. It deliberately references provocative foreign quotes calling for the starvation of the German people and preys on basic human fears about the safety of women, children and the elderly. As was unfortunately common at the time, this poster alsoexploits the racist preconceptions of its readers in order to manipulate the German audience for the cause of winning the war. This poster also repeatedly depicts the German population as victims of a war instigated by others.

Object details

Categories	Prints Propaganda Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Party official Wall Newspaper - Poster of the NSDAP (generic title)
Materials and techniques	lithograph Paper Ink Printing Ink Printing
Brief description	German World War II propaganda poster by Hannes Kremner, 1940.
Physical description	Poster
Dimensions	Height: 84.1cm Width: 120.3cm
Marks and inscriptions	(translated from the German) Translation Parole of the Week/ Party official 'wall newspaper' of the NSDAP/ issued by the Reich Propaganda Office of the NSDAP in the Central Publishing House of the NSDAP. Franz Eher & Sons, Munich/ Subscription costs: 0,80 Reichsmark/ is published once a week, sent from Munich/ 'In the Name of Civilisation...'/ The plutocratic war agitators in London and Paris are pleading for mercy now that the war, which they instigated, is now ravaging their own countries - in the name of civilisation, of course. Concerning civilisation, we remember, that in its name Churchill and his comrades once during the war carried out a certain hunger strike against us and thus killed hundreds of thousands of German women, elderly people and children... We also remember that in the name of civilisation, defenceless German women on the Rhine and the Ruhr [Rivers] were once violated [raped] by French Negroes and German workers were shot down like dogs by them... Apparently, the French Minister Monet was also speaking in the name of civilisation a few weeks ago when referring to the newest Franco-British blockade attempts, and using the following known words: "It won't be so terrible if a few hundred thousand German women and children will starve to death again. That's what war is for." We also still remember exactly what one could read in the French press a little while ago: "We have to humiliate the Germans much greater than [we did] in Versailles. If they queue under French bayonets in French field kitchens - then it is right!" So that's what they were attempting to do with us: standing in a line in fornt of their field kitchens under the bayonets of the French Negroes in the name of civilisation! We already came to know these "civilised" blessings of the overseas plutocrats. It will not happen a second time. That is why Germany will fight, with stern determination, until victorious in this war which has been instigated by the plutocratic war criminals in London and Paris - for a true European Civilisation!!! Responsible for the content: Hannes Kremner, Munich/ Published by Franz Eher & Sons, Munich 1940
Credit line	Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Object history	NB: The term "negro" was used historically to describe people of black African heritage but, since the 1960s, has fallen from usage and, increasingly, is considered offensive. The term is repeated here in its original historical context.
Subjects depicted	War Propaganda National Socialism Agitprop Ideology Racism Discrimination Violence Antisemitism World War II
Place depicted	Germany
Summary	As a means of spreading a message, posters have been effectively used as "wall newspapers", serving as public notices. This text-heavy propaganda poster was meant to inform the German public about threats from the enemy. It deliberately references provocative foreign quotes calling for the starvation of the German people and preys on basic human fears about the safety of women, children and the elderly. As was unfortunately common at the time, this poster alsoexploits the racist preconceptions of its readers in order to manipulate the German audience for the cause of winning the war. This poster also repeatedly depicts the German population as victims of a war instigated by others.
Other number	LS.561 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1313-2004

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Record created	March 14, 2005
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O110191/party-official-wall-newspaper--poster-kremner-hannes/

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