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title: '"Wählt die Kandidaten der Nationalen Front": election poster on an advertising pillar, East Berlin'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-nationale-front-poster-pillar-1961/
description: On an East Berlin advertising pillar a yellow-and-white typographic poster reads 'With the peace treaty to peace and unity of the nation!
section: Collection
---

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# "Wählt die Kandidaten der Nationalen Front": election poster on an advertising pillar, East Berlin

On an East Berlin advertising pillar a yellow-and-white typographic poster reads 'With the peace treaty to peace and unity of the nation! With socialism to the people's happiness!' and, in a blue tag, 'Vote for the candidates of the National Front'. The two promises are abstract virtue phrases with no measures attached, tied to a single ballot instruction. Concert posters share the pillar; a woman stands beside it.

- **Date:** 1961
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** National Front of the German Democratic Republic (named on the poster); printer not legible
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [East Germany](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=east-germany)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [German Democratic Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=german-democratic-republic)
- **Leader:** [Walter Ulbricht](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=walter-ulbricht)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Theme:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics)
- **Event:** [Berlin Crisis 1961](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=berlin-crisis-1961)
- **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Fortepan (donor: UWM Libraries)](https://fortepan.hu/en/photos/?id=259374), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC BY-SA 3.0 (Fortepan site footer, quoted in notes); covers the photograph only Fortepan / UWM Libraries, ID 259374 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

## Text on the object

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

```
Mit dem
Friedensvertrag
zu Frieden
und Einheit
der Nation!

Mit dem
Sozialismus
zum Glück
des Volkes!

WÄHLT DIE
KANDIDATEN
DER NATIONALEN
FRONT

[other posters on the pillar advertise concerts and are not transcribed]
```

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

```
With the
peace treaty
to peace
and unity
of the nation!

With
socialism
to the happiness
of the people!

VOTE FOR THE
CANDIDATES
OF THE NATIONAL
FRONT

[other posters on the pillar advertise concerts and are not transcribed]
```

Poster text read from the committed 840 x 1280 px image; 'Glück des Volkes' is translated literally as 'happiness of the people'.

[← FRIEDENSVERTRAG: East Berlin street board on a German peace treaty](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-friedensvertrag-board-1961/) ["Grenzgänger zu bedienen ist unter unserer Würde": shop poster, Königs Wusterhausen district →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-grenzgaenger-shop-poster-1961/)

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