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title: Zerschmettert den Weltfeind. Wählt Nationalsozialistisch! (Streiter-Verlag election poster)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zerschmettert-den-weltfeind-nsdap-plakat-1928/
description: A bare-chested figure swings a swastika-marked shell casing down on a building labelled 'Internationale Hochfinanz', which collapses, while the printed…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** 1928 Nazi Party election poster showing a swastika-marked figure smashing a building labelled 'Internationale Hochfinanz', shown whole. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Zerschmettert den Weltfeind. Wählt Nationalsozialistisch! (Streiter-Verlag election poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/zerschmettert-den-weltfeind-nsdap-plakat-1928.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/zerschmettert-den-weltfeind-nsdap-plakat-1928.jpg)

# Zerschmettert den Weltfeind. Wählt Nationalsozialistisch! (Streiter-Verlag election poster)

A bare-chested figure swings a swastika-marked shell casing down on a building labelled 'Internationale Hochfinanz', which collapses, while the printed red script reads 'Zerschmettert den Weltfeind!' and the foot reads 'Wählt nationalsozialistisch (Hitler-Bewegung)'. 'International high finance' is the named target.

## Text on the object

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

```
Zerschmettert
den Weltfeind!
INTERNATIONALE
HOCHFINANZ
Wählt nationalsozialistisch
(Hitler-Bewegung)
Streiter-Verlag, Zwickau Sa.
```

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

```
Smash
the world enemy!
INTERNATIONAL
HIGH FINANCE
Vote National Socialist
(Hitler Movement)
Streiter-Verlag, Zwickau, Saxony
```

Pencilled museum marks at the foot ('1990.333.05', 'PII 30') omitted.

[← School copybook 'La Marina Italiana (Manovre navali del 1928)' with Mussolini and a printed slogan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/quaderno-marina-mussolini-manovre-navali-1928/) [l'Unità, Anno VII, N. 1, front page (January 1928): "Resistere alla seconda ondata di riduzione dei salari! SCIOPERATE!" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/l-unita-sciopero-salari-1928/)

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