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Mjolnir's Our Last Hope: Hitler

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In 1932 an artist named Mjolnir created a poster which was used in the presidential elections in Germany. The poster is known as “Our Last Hope:Hitler.” During this time period Germany was suffering through a great depression. By 1933 around six million Germans were out of work which devastated the German society. (1) “Germany appeared to be on the brink of civil war. The young Weimar Republic was wracked by armed street fighting waged mainly between Communists and Nazis. Foreclosures, bankruptcies, suicides and malnourished all skyrocketed. Six million Germans, 40 per cent of the working population, were unemployed; and thousands found themselves without a place to live….” (2) The Bruning government failed to respond to the German population

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