In 1932, 104,000 motor vehicles were manufactured, 33,000 people were employed, and goods with a total value of 295,000,000 marks were produced. "Neues Volk" was a fairly widely circulated magazine promoting the Nazi version of "racial hygiene", the pseudo-scientific notion that the German and related "nordic" races are destined to be rulers of the other inferior races of the world, due to the formers genetic superiority. Generally speaking, author Detlef Helmbold says that graphic artists working in East Germany were given a lot of creative leeway to design these posters.Mountains in Flames was produced in Lodz, Poland. The premiere of the film took place only a few weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall.This poster was created by Detlef Helmbold himself. Contributor: Rehse Archiv Für Zeitgeschichte Und Publizistik, Dlc In his opinion, it shows that "the posters are more art than advertisement." The word means "Poster style" and was a modern take on posters which would have a clear, fundamental influence on poster design until the end of World War II, and even beyond that. The modernist movement in Germany was effectively strangled by the Nazis, including the Bauhaus school which was closed in 1933. And as always, the Jew was behind it all, working in the shadows to foul up the purity of German culture. (...) Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion. The P.W.E. Crowned with a money bag representing capitalism, the top layer, “we rule you”, is occupied by the royalty and state leaders. Seemingly slapped on top at the last minute is a map piece with the communist hammer and sickle, to make sure that the Bolshevik connection isn't forgotten.Printed from the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940 and onwards, the terrifyingly tough looking poster #30 was aimed at recruiting Dutchmen as foreign legionaries in the Waffen-SS. It's the 80s and graphic design of the time dictates ghastly colour combinations and hard, edgy shapes. While the fascist elements are obvious, it's still an excellent poster in my eyes, the highly angular style and the slightly glowing eyes all make for an impressive, if foreboding poster. In the year before, Germany had annexed Austria and the Sudetenland portion of Czechoslovakia. Here, Marxism is represented by a tall, skinny angel wearing an SPD hat (the Social Democratic party), while capitalism is illustrated by the fat, Jewish banker, a popular stereotype in Nazi propaganda.Together, these two posters yield some surprising conclusions, firstly that the Jews are the ones behind both Marxism and Capitalism, and that these two ideologies are in fact friends and allies. From 1986 to 1990, he worked as an employed graphic designer at Progress Film Distribution in former East Germany. They show that poster art was highly esteemed in East Germany.Also produced by DEFA was the film The Affair Blum by Erich Engel, a film about a 1920s judicial scandal. Again, the symbolic interpretation of the film is in the center and information about the movie's content is left out. Very few individuals, at the time, owned a car, most biked, walked, or used public transportation daily. They show that poster art was highly esteemed in East Germany.Also produced by DEFA was the film The Affair Blum by Erich Engel, a film about a 1920s judicial scandal. Production had only just started when the war erupted in Europe in 1939, and so the relatively few cars that were built were delivered to the military.After the war, this simple, cheap and good looking little car became a massive success, with more than 20 million units built in a production run that didn't end until the year 2003.In this poster, a young couple is seen blissfully cruising through an alpine landscape in what is here referred to as a KdF-car. This was of course a cause for celebration in the ostensibly Marxist DDR.Jumping 40 years ahead, the final poster is another DDR issue. The poster became globally famous during the anti-Vietnam war protests and is now the symbol of F.A.R.C. Exposure to the The majority of the posters were centered on Jews and the Allied countries of Great Britain, the United States of America and Russia. Eighty percent of the people who were in charge of deciding on poster design were ultimately graphic designers, and only 20 percent came from public relations.Of course there were also limitations, but these rarely corresponded to the design and were rather a response to the content. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, all of the regular press came under complete Nazi editorial control through the policy of In Ukraine, after Nazis cracked down on the papers, most papers printed only articles from German agencies, producing the odd effect of more anti-American and anti-British articles than anti-Communist ones.The Nazis used photographers to document events and promote ideology. It was initiated by the Militia United in Righteousness (Yihetuan), known in English as the “Boxers”, and was motivated by proto-nationalist sentiments and opposition to foreign imperialism and Christianity. German words for poster include Poster, Plakat, Plakatankleber and Anschlag. Created for a co-production between East and West Germany, this is one of author Helmbold's favorite posters: "The whole title becomes a mountain, the artist was totally free," he says. They are surrounded by the tiny white airplanes of the royalists, which appear to have no effect on them at all and in fact seem to be flying through the figures. It was the civil government that was forced to sign the treaty, which was highly unpopular in Germany, something which hurt the legitimacy of the whole democratic system in Germany in the years to come. In the early 20th century, new philosophical currents mixed with a rapidly growing number of new sciences (and pseudo-sciences) and resulted in new ideologies, and the transformation of old ones.In the troubled economic environment of the 1930s, it was fascism which would arise to become the most potent new ideology as a response to the apparent inability of capitalism and democracy to deal with the troubles of the time.In this post, I present a small selection of aesthetically and historically interesting posters from Germany in the 20th century, with most of them coming from the Nazi era, 1933-1945.