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
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.
- Date
- 1928
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- NSDAP (Hitler-Bewegung), Streiter-Verlag, Zwickau
- Country
- Weimar Republic
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Weimar Republic
- Leader
- Wilhelm Marx
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Techniques
- ScapegoatingName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (US Holocaust Memorial Museum collection), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US: published before 1 Jan 1931, PD-1923 tag; origin-country PD tag), per Commons
Streiter-Verlag, Zwickau, 1928; image from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum collection
Text on the object
Zerschmettert den Weltfeind! INTERNATIONALE HOCHFINANZ Wählt nationalsozialistisch (Hitler-Bewegung) Streiter-Verlag, Zwickau Sa.
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.
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