Author: Deutsche Volkspartei
Title: Liste 7 : Was wir wollen - was wir fordern!
Description: Berlin, D.V.P. [1930]. 31x23cm, One page, two sides.. Small corner creases. A small tear to side edge. Good. ¶ This is a double-side electoral propaganda handbill issued by the German People's Party in the 14 September 1930 federal election in Germany. Headline at bottom of second side concludes: "Deutschen Volkspartei. Mit Hindenburg unter Schwarz-Weiss-Rot für eine nationales Deutschland! Männer und Frauen, deutsche Jugend, auf zur Wahl, wählt Liste 7". ["The German People's Party (Deutsche Volkspartei, or DVP) was a national liberal party in Weimar Germany and a successor to the National Liberal Party of the German Empire. A right-wing liberal or conservative- liberal party, its most famous member was Chancellor and Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, a 1926 Nobel Peace Prize laureate....Despite Stresemann's international standing, he was never really trusted by his own party, large elements of which never really accepted the republic. After Stresemann's death, the DVP veered sharply to the right. The party's dispute with the Social Democrats in 1930 over unemployment benefits toppled the Grand Coalition government of Hermann Müller. In the election of September 1930, the DVP was one of the biggest losers, losing 15 of its 45 parliamentary seats. The party's rightward turn accelerated soon afterward, and many of its more liberal members resigned. It began angling for a coalition of all ' national' parties--including the Nazis...." - wikipedia].

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