--- title: '"Kärntner Volksabstimmung, 10. Oktober 1920" postcard' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/carinthian-plebiscite-postcard-1920/ description: Two men in rural dress shake hands before families of both sides, flanked by a farmer and a rifleman, under a banner quoting Schiller's oath of unity… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [!["Kärntner Volksabstimmung, 10. Oktober 1920" postcard](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/carinthian-plebiscite-postcard-1920.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/carinthian-plebiscite-postcard-1920.jpg) # "Kärntner Volksabstimmung, 10. Oktober 1920" postcard Two men in rural dress shake hands before families of both sides, flanked by a farmer and a rifleman, under a banner quoting Schiller's oath of unity: "Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern". The tell is the borrowed literary oath and the unspecified brotherhood, standing in for any argument about the border. - **Date:** 1920 - **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar) - **Made by:** Artur Kollitsch (publisher); the card names no party or government sponsor - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [Austria](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=austria) - **Medium:** [Postcard](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=postcard) - **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed) - **Regime:** [First Austrian Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=first-austrian-republic) - **Leader:** [Michael Mayr](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=michael-mayr) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support) - **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity) - **Event:** [Carinthian Plebiscite](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=carinthian-plebiscite) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) - **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure - **Source:** [Dr. Franc Sušnik Central Library of Carinthia, Ravne na Koroškem (dLib.si, National and University Library, Ljubljana)](https://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:IMG-MYSYADCB), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public Domain Mark (Europeana/dLib); published 1920, U.S. public domain Artur Kollitsch, Kärntner Volksabstimmung, postcard, 1920. Koroška osrednja knjižnica dr. Franca Sušnika, via dLib.si (URN:NBN:SI:IMG-MYSYADCB). ## Text on the object Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr! Kärntner Volksabstimmung 10. Oktober 1920 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` We want to be a single people of brothers, in no need to part from each other, nor in danger! Carinthian plebiscite 10 October 1920 ``` Blackletter type. The banner text follows Schiller's line "Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr". [← America When Feminized](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/america-when-feminized-1920/) [Do broni! Wszyscy na front! (To Arms! Everyone to the Front!) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/do-broni-poland-1920/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)