PCA 158
Cold War era Italian Christian Democrat poster. It reads ‘Farmer! The American grain saving us from starvation also saves us from the violence, the chaos of the communist revolution. For the freedom of your field, for the peace of your family’. M
Size: 70 x 100
Price: $520.00
PCA 155
Italian anti-communist poster from 1949. It reads ‘celebration of freedom’. M
Size: 68 x 96
Price: $490.00
PCA 153
Anti-communist poster from the Christian Democrats, who ousted the communist party from the coalition in 1947. The poster shows the design of the Russian painter Pulakoff escaped from a forced labor camp. The poster title reads ‘because this does not happen in Italy’.
Size: 62 x 96. M
Price: $450.00
PCA 151Rare poster from the UQ, party in Italy. The Common Man's Front (Fronte dell'Uomo Qualunque, UQ) was a short-lived right-wing populist, monarchist and anti-communist political party in Italy. It was formed shortly after the end of the Second World War and participated in the first post-war election for the constituent assembly in 1946. Its leader was the Roman writer Guglielmo Giannini. Following the election the party suffered. After the Christian Democracy ejected the Communists from the government coalition in 1947 and the stabilisation of the economic situation, most of the Front's supporters became voters of the Christian Democrats, making them the dominant force in Italian politics. In 1947 ten MPs left the party and founded the National Union group, slowly moving towards the Italian Liberal Party. Later, the whole party accepted to join forces with the Liberals in the National Bloc, and fell into decline. Some of its initial proponents became adherents of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI). The last remnants of the organisation merged into the MSI in 1972.
Whereas the party's history was quite short, it left one long-lasting influence in the Italian political discourse: even today, qualunquismo is a common derogatory term for a non-committal attitude, cynical political disinterest, lack of social responsibility or anti-political populism.
Size: 17 x 70. M
Price: $390.00
PCA 150
1937 Italian calendar from the Fascist Confederation of Farmers Federation National Fascist Owners Renters Farmers, showing Mussolini.
Size: 45 x 60. M
Price: $350.00
PCA 149
1936 Italian calendar from the Fascist Confederation of Farmers Federation National Fascist Owners Renters Farmers, showing Mussolini.
Size: 45 x 60. M
Price: $350.00
PCA 134
Italian Social Republic poster showing the dead children from the famous Scuola Elemntare Francesco Crispi of Gorla, bombed by the USAF on October 20, 1944, killing 184 pupils and all the teachers. The poster attacks the supposed Liberators of Italy. Small edge tears not affecting the body of the poster. M
Size: 35 x 50
Price: $310.00
PCA 125
NAZI GERMAN POSTER BY THE GERMAN LABOR FRONT. It announces a meeting taking place on May 1, 1937. The party logo reads - Community "Strength through Joy". Gau Munich – Bavaria. Size: 42 x 58. Some wearing on left margin, some professional repairs. M
NOTE: NC Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude (KdF; German for 'Strength Through Joy') was a German state-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany. It was part of the German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront), the national labour organization at that time. Set up in 1933 as a tool to promote the advantages of Nazism to the German people and internationally, while also being utilized to ease the process of the rearmament of Germany. It was also intended to compensate for the poor increases in wages and for the loss of trade union rights. Through its structure of organized events and promotion of propaganda, it was also intended to prevent dissident and anti-state behavior. By 1939, it had become the world's largest tourism operator.
KdF was composed of several departments that had its own specific goals, with each department organizing different leisure activities. It organized activities such as sporting events on factory floors, art exhibitions, discounted concerts and, most famously and popularly, subsidized holidays and cruise trips. One of its largest departments, although sometimes considered a separate organization altogether, was Beauty of Labour, which concerned itself with physical and sanitary improvements of the workplace. KdF was responsible for the improvement of several factories and sports facilities throughout its operations in the 1930s.
KdF was supposed to bridge the class divide by making middle-class leisure activities available to the masses. It also sought to bolster the German tourist industry, something it did successfully up until the outbreak of World War II. Official statistics showed that in 1934, 2.3 million people took KdF holidays. By 1938, this figure rose to 10.3 million. With the outbreak of war in 1939, most of the organization's programs were suspended and several projects, such as the Prora holiday resort, were never completed.
Price: $350.00
PCA 094
EARLY POST-WAR ANTI-COMMUNIST POSTER. 50x70cm. IT READS
From England and its Dominions
The United States
France and it Possessions
All returned
Our Prisoners
What is the success of our brothers in Russia?
80000 Prisoners 12540 Returnees
Why not again?
Price: $450.00
PCA 091
A political poster for the Christian Democratic Party in the first election in Italy after World War 2, in 1946. The caption reads ‘Town by town rebuilding Italy’. Some edge tears and other small tears easily repaired. Size is 100x70cm. M ASK FOR AVAILABILITY
Note: The Christian Democrat party was founded in 1944 as the revival of the tradition of the Italian People’s Party (PPI), a political party created in 1919 by Luigi Sturzo, a Roman Catholic priest. but was declared illegal by the Fascist regime in 1925. In the 1946 general election, the first after World War II, the DC won 35.2% of the vote. Breaking decisively with its Communist and Socialist coalition partners under pressure from Harry Truman in May 1947, the party went on to win a decisive victory in 1948 general election with the support of the Catholic Church and the United States.
Price: $400.00