SOURCE IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Privately produced political picture postcard entitled Landvolk erwache! (Rural People, Awaken!), posted at Stutthof in the Free City of Danzig on 19th September 1932 and addressed to a recipient in Oldenburg, Germany. The picture depicts a rural settlement with thatched buildings beneath a prominent swastika, incorporated into a clouded sky with descending shafts of light. The slogan and imagery reflect National Socialist efforts to mobilise agricultural communities during the political and economic instability of the early 1930s. The postcard was mailed at a time when the NSDAP was rapidly expanding its organisation within the Free City of Danzig. In February 1932, Hermann Rauschning, who had joined the NSDAP and become involved in its agricultural policies, assumed the chairmanship of the Danzig Agricultural League, illustrating the party's efforts to secure rural political support.

The card bears a green 10 Pfennig Danzig definitive stamp cancelled STUTTHOF (FREIE STADT DANZIG). Although the card's imagery is unmistakably National Socialist, its publisher and any formal connection with the NSDAP have not been established. The item provides contemporary evidence of Nazi political messaging directed towards rural communities before the party's assumption of power in Germany in January 1933.Ref: 19.09.1932 - 3/103