Content note: Graphic violence: a strangling above a woman and infant lying in blood. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Spartakus bei der Arbeit (Spartacus at Work)
A gaunt man strangles another man while a woman and an infant lie in a pool of blood beneath them, under the title 'Spartacus at work' and the address of the Association to Combat Bolshevism. No incident, place or date is named: one political faction is made the author of a generic family murder, and the sponsoring league is the only remedy on offer.
- Date
- 1919
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Vereinigung zur Bekämpfung des Bolschewismus, Berlin; artist unknown
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Weimar Germany
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Weimar Republic
- Leader
- Friedrich Ebert
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Labor
- Event
- German Revolution, 1918-1919
- Techniques
- Fear appealScapegoating
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in the U.S. (published before 1931)
1919. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-38902.
Text on the object
Spartakus bei der Arbeit Vereinigung zur Bekämpfung des Bolschewismus. Berlin W9 Schellingstr. 2
Spartacus at Work Association to Combat Bolshevism. Berlin W9 Schelling Street 2
