Protest der deutschen Frauen gegen die farbige Besatzung am Rhein / Riemer. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Protest der deutschen Frauen gegen die farbige Besatzung am Rhein / Riemer.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Protest der deutschen Frauen gegen die farbige Besatzung am Rhein / Riemer.
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Few postwar posters tie a political grievance to race as directly as this one. Its German title, roughly "Protest of German Women Against the Colored Occupation on the Rhine," points to the African soldiers serving in the French forces that occupied the Rhineland after 1918. Nationalist campaigns of the early 1920s, often called the "Black Shame" campaign, used images like this to portray those troops as a threat to German women and to rally public outrage at home and abroad. Read today, the poster shows how racist imagery was used to turn a military occupation into a national grievance.
| Created / published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 95 x 71 cm. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik. Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Aftermath--Germany. Military occupations--Germany--1920. Soldiers--Africans--Germany--1920. Racism--Germany--1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,991 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1800_Protest_der_deutschen_F_1920 |
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