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Description: | 22646
IWM: PST: 22646 [deleted]
whole: the image occupies the upper two-thirds. The title is partially integrated and positioned in the centre, in orange.
The text is separate and positioned in the lower third, in black and in orange outlined black, held within an orange border. All set
against a white background.
image: a set of scales, held by the hand of an unseen person, weigh a collection of precious objects, such as a crown, against a clenched
fist. The fist firmly presses down its side of the scale.
text: NOVEMBER 1918
[artist's monogram - unreadable] 18
UND ALS DIE GROSSE MORGENRÖTE KAM,
DA WOG DAS VOLK DIE ARBEITSAME FAUST
AUF GEGEN GOTTESGNADENTUM UND KAPITAL
UND ALLGEWALTIG TÖNTE DA DER RUF:
GEWOGEN, UND ZU LEICHT BEFUNDEN!
AM SOZIALISMUS WIRD DIE WELT GESUNDEN!
VERLAG: NACHRICHTENAMT DES A. UND S. RATES
DRUCK WÜSTEN und CO, FRANKFURT AM
[And when the great dawn came, the people weighed up the hard-working fist against divine right and capital and the cry resounded all-
powerfully: weighed and found wanting! The world will be cured by socialism! Publisher: Information Office of the Workers’ and Soldiers’
Council. Printed by Wüsten and Co, Frankfurt on the Main.] | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | civilian personnel DE.O Nachrichtenamt des A und S Rates [Information Office of the Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council] political campaigns WW1 German Home Front | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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