Ein Volk, ein Führer, ein Ja (One People, One Leader, One Yes)

Ein Volk, ein Führer, ein Ja (One People, One Leader, One Yes)

A banner several storeys high on Berlin's Voßstraße for the single-list Reichstag election and referendum of 12 November 1933 reads 'One people, one leader, one Yes.' The slogan equates the nation with its leader and the leader with the only acceptable answer, so a No vote reads as stepping outside the people.

Date
November 1933
Period
Interwar
Made by
National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
Nazi Germany
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
Party
Regime
Nazi Germany
Leader
Adolf Hitler
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Theme
Elections and party politics
Event
1933 Reichstag Election and Referendum
Techniques
Identity fusion
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 27, 2026
Rights
CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (German Federal Archives)
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-K0930-502 / photographer unknown / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

Ein
Volk
ein
Führer
ein
›Ja‹

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

One
People
one
Leader
one
‘Yes’

Small printed text in the bottom-right corner of the banner (likely a printer's credit) is too small and low-resolution in this photograph to read; not transcribed. The image is a photograph of the banner in situ on a Berlin street, not a scan of the banner itself.