Die National Versammlung ist die Morgenstunde : Unsrer Sozialen Republik [The National Assembly is the dawning of our Socialist Republic]

German First World War poster depicting workers marching in the light of dawn. The poster title translates from the German as; 'The National Assembly is the dawning of our Socialist Republic'. The German Weimar National Assembly (German: Weimarer Nationalversammlung) governed Germany from February 6 1919 to June 6 1920 and drew up the new constitution which governed Germany from 1919 to 1933, technically remaining in effect even until the end of Nazi rule in 1945. The vote in the National Assembly still reflected public opinion as it was in November and December 1918. Those who sympathised with the revolution and the republic, the Socialist and democratic parties, achieved a great success. The Majority Socialists polled eleven and a half million votes in the National Assembly. Nearly fourteen million Socialist votes were recorded out of a total of thirty million. The Weimar National Assembly and the strong Socialist support was seen as a symbol of the new Germany whose ideal was no longer to be governed by militarism, but by the traditions of the philosophers Goethe and Schiller.This poster reflects this sentiment, with workers united walking across a field holding their tools, while the sun rises behind them, symbolising the 'new dawn' and a new Germany under Socialism. German First World War and subsequent posters often extolled an overt nationalism, strong expressions of ancient Germanic spirit or symbolic imagery to address propaganda objectives.