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Poster - Die Gefahr des Bolschewismus - Public domain lithograph
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Poster shows a skeleton, wrapped in a black cloak, with a bloody knife held in its teeth. In the background a hill of crosses on top of which is a gallows. Text: The danger of Bolshevism.
Exhibited in: "Nazi Propaganda" at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 2009.
In art, mementos mori are artistic or symbolic reminders of mortality. Memento mori is a Latin expression meaning "remember that you have to die". It was then reused during the medieval period, it is also related to the ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") and related literature. Memento mori has been an important part of ascetic disciplines as a means of perfecting the character by cultivating detachment and other virtues, and by turning the attention towards the immortality of the soul and the afterlife.
German Wold War I Propaganda Posters, 1914-1919
Collection of Skulls, bones and skeletons.
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