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title: Saxon referendum posters in an FDJ youth display, "Pfingsten 1947"
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sbz-saxon-referendum-posters-whitsun-1947/
description: 'A display wall carries three printed posters and a painted board for the Saxon referendum: a skull-faced figure over ''Volksentscheid'', a wide-eyed young…'
section: Collection
---

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[![Saxon referendum posters in an FDJ youth display, "Pfingsten 1947"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sbz-saxon-referendum-posters-whitsun-1947.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sbz-saxon-referendum-posters-whitsun-1947.jpg)

# Saxon referendum posters in an FDJ youth display, "Pfingsten 1947"

A display wall carries three printed posters and a painted board for the Saxon referendum: a skull-faced figure over 'Volksentscheid', a wide-eyed young man with 'Jugend will leben! Deshalb beim Volksentscheid Ja!' and a board 'In Sachsen wahlberechtigt mit 18 Jahren!'. Fear (the skull, 'to protect house and farm') and a vote-by-age appeal are both aimed at the young.

## Text on the object

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

```
Enteignung der Betri[ebe]
[illegible] Kriegs- und [illegible]verbrecher
Volksentscheid
Zum Schutz von Haus und Hof, von Vieh und Ernte!

Jugend will leben!
Deshalb beim
Volksentscheid Ja!

In Sachsen
wahlberechtigt
mit 18 Jahren!

[small notice with FDJ emblem, illegible]

Die Jugend
fordert ihr [illegible]
[illegible]
Wählt den
Jugendkandid[aten]

Nicht so sondern so!
Darum Ja zum Volksentscheid

JUGEND UND [illegible]
```

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

```
Expropriation of the enterprises
[illegible] war and [illegible] criminals
People's referendum
For the protection of house and farm, of livestock and harvest!

Youth wants to live!
Therefore at the
referendum, Yes!

In Saxony
entitled to vote
at 18 years!

[small notice with FDJ emblem, illegible]

Youth
demands its [illegible]
[illegible]
Vote for the
youth candidate[s]

Not like this but like this!
Therefore Yes to the referendum

YOUTH AND [illegible]
```

Read from the 528 px image and a 2x crop. Cut-off or too-small words are marked [illegible]; the skull poster's first line is read as 'Enteignung der Betri…' and its second line only in part.

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