Willst du den Frieden ernten, musst du säen, darum – Vintage Wall Art
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This rare historic image captures Willst du den Frieden ernten, musst du säen, darum in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Willst du den Frieden ernten, musst du säen, darum
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The title turns on a farming image: if you want to reap peace, you must first sow, and the line trails off before saying what the sowing should be. That agricultural metaphor was common in German public messaging during the First World War, when posters, postcards and printed slogans urged home-front patience, sacrifice and faith that the nation's effort would eventually pay off. Read against the war, the phrase promises that present hardship would bear fruit later. Such slogans were written to rally support rather than to describe conditions on the ground, so it is worth viewing them alongside the wider wartime evidence.
| Original scan | 4,731 × 5,747 px · prints to 16 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 874_Willst_du_den_Frieden_e_ |
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