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1st September 1934
Bayreuth - Denkmal der nationalen Bewegung (reverse)
Bayreuth - Denkmal der nationalen Bewegung (reverse)
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Postcard depicting the 'National Movement Monument' situated in Luitpoldplatz, Bayreuth, designed by Hans Reissinger in 1934. Ref: 01.09.1934
In 1934 Reissinger became a member of the NSDAP. Later that year he was commissioned, by the National Socialist mayor of Bayreuth, Karl Schlumprecht, to produce a national monument. Reissinger designed a 123cm high swastika, lying flat on the ground with a clenched fist clutching snakes rising from its centre. Apparently, local residents used the monument as a urinal and it was eventually removed.
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