Locarno? Wählt deutschnational! (Locarno? Vote German National!)
A giant, dark-faced soldier in a steel helmet with a fixed bayonet looms out of smoke over a Rhine valley of castle, vineyards and church spires, with a single word above him, 'LOCARNO?'. The caricature gives the French colonial soldier a mask-like face and glaring eyes, so a treaty question is answered with a menacing racial figure, and the only remedy printed is a vote for the DNVP.
- Date
- 1928
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP), Reichstag election campaign; artist Erwin Reusch
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Weimar Germany
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Weimar Republic
- Leader
- Wilhelm Marx
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Race and ethnicity, War and the military
- Event
- Reichstag Election 1928
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1928, before 1931; artist Erwin Reusch d. 1936; Commons PD tags with Public Domain Mark)
Erwin Reusch for the DNVP, 1928, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
LOCARNO? Wählt deutschnational! REUSCH [signature, lower right] [small printer's mark at lower right: illegible]
LOCARNO? Vote German National! REUSCH [signature, lower right] [small printer's mark at lower right: illegible]
