Luftschutz! [Air Defense!]

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Luftschutz! [Air Defense!]
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  • Title :     Luftschutz! [Air Defense!]
  • Artist:     Ludwig Hohlwein Designer Reichsluftschutzbund Publisher H. Sonntag & Co. Printer
  • Accession:     XX1990.2738
  • Country:     Germany Munich
  • Date:     1936
  • Dimensions:     Inches 12-5/8 8-1/4, Centimeters 32.1 21.0
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Posters and Printed Ephemera
  • Collection Theme:     War and Political Propaganda
  • Subject:     War/Military , Nazism/Third Reich , Nationalism , Propaganda
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
  • URL:     XX1990.2738.JPG
  • Tags:     War and Political Propaganda~Posters and Printed Ephemera
Description:
Ink on paper offset color lithograph depicting a militiaman as both a medieval warrior, with pike and shield, and a modern soldier, with a 1930s military helmet.