--- title: 'Kreuzburg O.S. 25-pfennig note: "97% für Deutschland!" (Upper Silesia, 1921)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kreuzburg-97-percent-notgeld-1921/ description: Both faces of a municipal emergency note. The front has the town arms and the issuing terms; the back shows two bells ringing out "97% für Deutschland!"… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Kreuzburg O.S. 25-pfennig note: "97% für Deutschland!" (Upper Silesia, 1921)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kreuzburg-97-percent-notgeld-1921.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kreuzburg-97-percent-notgeld-1921.jpg) # Kreuzburg O.S. 25-pfennig note: "97% für Deutschland!" (Upper Silesia, 1921) Both faces of a municipal emergency note. The front has the town arms and the issuing terms; the back shows two bells ringing out "97% für Deutschland!" over the town skyline, above a line stating that 97% of Kreuzburg's inhabitants voted for Germany in the plebiscite of 20 March 1921. A vote share is put on the money itself as the message, and the size of the majority stands in for any argument. - **Date:** October 18, 1921 - **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar) - **Made by:** Magistrat der Stadt Kreuzburg O.S. (municipal emergency-money issue); printed by Flemming-Wiskott A.-G., Glogau - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [Weimar Germany](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=weimar-germany) - **Medium:** [Banknotes and coins](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=banknote-coin) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Weimar Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=weimar-republic) - **Leader:** [Joseph Wirth](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=joseph-wirth) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Commemorate](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=commemorate) - **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance) - **Event:** [1921 Upper Silesia Plebiscite](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=1921-upper-silesia-plebiscite) - **Techniques:** [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzburg_-_25Pf._1921.png), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (German municipal emergency note printed 1921; Commons: PD-GermanGov-currency, PD US expired) Scan by Wikimedia Commons user 5snake5 of a 1921 Kreuzburg O.S. Notgeld note (public domain) ## Text on the object Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` [front] KREUZBURG in OBERSCHLESIEN Dieser Gutschein ist nur für den Verkehr mit den städtischen Kassen bestimmt und verliert einen Monat nach öffentlichem Aufruf seine Gültigkeit. 25 Pf 25 Pf Kreuzburg O/S., den 18. Oktober 1921. Der Magistrat: [two signatures, read as Reche and Georgi] FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.-G. GLOGAU [back] 25 Pf. 25 Pf. 97% für Deutschland! 97% für Deutschland! [on the rays beneath the bells] Bei der Volksabstimmung am 20. März 1921 stimmten in Kreuzburg 97% der Einwohner für Deutschland. D.R.G.M. 795679 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` [front] KREUZBURG in UPPER SILESIA This voucher is intended only for dealings with the municipal cash offices and loses its validity one month after public notice. 25 Pf 25 Pf Kreuzburg O/S., 18 October 1921. The Magistrate: [two signatures] FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.-G. GLOGAU [back] 25 Pf. 25 Pf. 97% for Germany! 97% for Germany! In the plebiscite of 20 March 1921, 97% of the inhabitants of Kreuzburg voted for Germany. D.R.G.M. 795679 [registered design number] ``` Blackletter type; the slash in O/S is read from the image. Signatures read as printed surnames, not verified. 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