Description
Ludwig Hohlwein: National Reich’s Youth Day (Hitler Youth) Day October 1-2 1932. This is a prime example of National Socialist realism. There were four national elections held in Germany in 1932 indicating that the country was in turmoil during this fourth year of worldwide depression in which the Weimar government couldn’t provide the necessary stability for Germany’s political or economic life. As a result, the opposition, i.e., the National Socialists’ influence grew tremendously. In the election held in November of that year Hitler was deadlocked with former Field-Marshall Paul von Hindenburg who was then serving as Germany’s chancellor. After behind the scenes political infighting involving Franz von Papen, a political operative if ever there were, Hitler maintained his demand that he should be Germany’s new chancellor. Eventually he got his wish after von Papen convinced the aging von Hindenburg, who was 84 years old at the time, that Hitler could be politically controlled if he got into office. He was wrong-dead wrong. For his part in the political machinations that brought Hitler to power, von Papen was later tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg in 1946, but was acquitted
The poster’s image shows a bronzed young German male and two National Socialist flags, one large and one small, flanking him. In the lower right hand corner the German eagle, a symbol of nationalism since medieval times, shares the lower border with the poster’s title. This is an important political poster by Germany’s most important poster artist. 34×24 near mint, conservation backed.
