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German WWII Propaganda Poster ”Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!” - A color offset-printed propaganda poster featuring a half-length portrait of Adolf Hitler in uniform with an armband, standing beside a chair, against a red and brown background. The bottom caption reads ”Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!” and the lower margin bears a printer's imprint reading ”Offsetdruck Carl Werner Reichenbach i.V.” Measures about 16.5 x 23.5 inches. This slogan, translating to ”One People, One Nation, One Leader, ” was among the most widely circulated Nazi propaganda phrases, used extensively on posters, postcards, and publications to promote unity under the regime. The slogan gained particular prominence around the March 1938 Anschluss and the April 1938 plebiscite ratifying the annexation of Austria, where it was used to frame the union of Germany and Austria as the fulfillment of a single German racial and political community under Hitler's rule. It exemplified the regime's broader propaganda strategy of fusing party, state, and leader into a single object of loyalty, deployed by the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels through mass-produced visual media. Such posters were designed for public display in shop windows, streets, and civic buildings to reinforce the cult of personality surrounding Hitler and suppress dissenting political identity.