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Early German WWII Patriotic Wall Pillow Case Coutout ”Der Freiheit entgegen!” - A printed textile wall pillowcase cutout in black with a design of an eagle grasping a mobile swastika device, flying above a sunrise over mountains and water. The banner bears the inscription ”Der Freiheit entgegen!” (”Toward Freedom!”) in stylized gold lettering across the top. Banners of this type were produced as decorative home or club-room pieces during the Third Reich period, combining patriotic slogans with romanticized landscape and eagle motifs typical of the era's popular propaganda imagery. Textile items of this kind were mass-produced commercial goods aimed at the domestic market during the 1933–1939 period, sold for display in homes, taverns, and Nazi Party-affiliated club rooms to foster everyday identification with National Socialist ideology. The slogan ”Der Freiheit entgegen!” reflects propaganda rhetoric of national renewal following the Treaty of Versailles, framing Hitler's rise and Germany's rearmament as a path to liberation from perceived post-WWI oppression. Such pieces belong to a broad genre of interwar patriotic kitsch that used eagle-and-sunrise imagery to romanticize the regime's nationalist and expansionist aims.