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DeserteurInnenparade gegen Wehrpflicht und Zwangsdienst

Item

Identifier: PL-0256
Title: DeserteurInnenparade gegen Wehrpflicht und Zwangsdienst
Creator: Drewinski, Lex
Organization: Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands
Date Created: 1990
Extent: 84 x 59.5
Description: Poster advertises a "deserters' parade"; a demonstration against conscription and forced service. Parade was to be held on Saturday, November 17th, 1990 at 1 pm and beginning at Schinkelwache unter den Linden, and concluding at Kundgebung Wittenberg Platz at 3 pm. Parade was part of the Campaign Against Conscription, Forced Service, and the Military (slogan: "With us against the draft"). Poste shows a portrait silhouette of a German soldier with a missile emerging from his head and shattering his helmet. At the bottom right of the picture is printed "homo sapiens". The poster calls on a list of organizations to participate. Poster created for the October 1990 elections (gesamtdeutsche Bundestags).
Subject: Germany --Politics and government--Posters.; Elections; Weapons; Armies; Germany—History—Unification, 1990; Demonstrations
Medium: Political posters--Germany
Spatial Coverage: Berlin

Item sets: East German Posters