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The Swastika as a Rising Sun–Linz, ca. 1935

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Judging from the cover art it is not necessarily clear what is going on with that swastika. But given the question in the title (“Can Austria Still Be Saved?”) and the publisher, the NSDAP’s Volkstimme (Linz) leaves little doubt that the swastika is a rising sun rather than setting.  I can’t find another title in the OCLC/WorldCat–which makes this piece of propaganda rare–and which means that I can’t date it precisely, though I would say it was printed prior to the annexation in 1938 (though the design definitely has an earlier touch to it…)  There is a mention of the Gauleitung der N.S.D.A.P. and the Hitlerbewegung located at Goethestrasse 7 in Linz–and since the Nazis were suppressed under Dollfuss from 1932-1934, which means this document may have been printed in the mid/late 1930’s.  

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