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German Weimar-Era DNVP Election Poster ”Wählt Deutschnationale Volkspartei” - German Weimar-Era DNVP Election Poster ”Wählt Deutschnationale Volkspartei” A printed campaign poster for the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP), the German National People's Party, illustrated with a mass of flag-bearers carrying black-white-red banners over a rise of land. The slogan below the image, ”Wählt Deutschnationale Volkspartei, das ist Schwarz-Weiß-Rot!”, ties the party directly to the colors of the old Imperial German flag as a rallying symbol against the new republic's black-red-gold. The DNVP was a major conservative, monarchist and nationalist party of the Weimar Republic, drawing support from former imperial officials, landowners, and industrialists who rejected the 1918 revolution and the Weimar constitution. Its imagery consistently invoked the black-white-red tricolor of the German Empire as a symbol of restoration, making posters such as this one a direct visual expression of the political struggles of the early 1920s. The DNVP was formed in late 1918 from remnants of the old conservative and nationalist parties of the German Empire, opposing the republic, the Treaty of Versailles, and the black-red-gold flag associated with the 1848 liberal tradition and the new constitution. Through the 1920s it competed for the nationalist and monarchist vote alongside emerging radical movements, before its leadership under Alfred Hugenberg allied with the Nazi Party in the early 1930s, lending crucial support to Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933 and the subsequent consolidation of power, after which the DNVP was dissolved and absorbed into the one-party state.