German leaflet from the period of the 1921 plebiscite in Upper Silesia.
Double-sided. Bilingual, in Polish and German. Format 33 x 22 cm. Original printing. Leaflet addressed to Silesian Catholics. It exhorts people to vote for Germany in the upcoming plebiscite. Plebiscite in Upper Silesia (German: Volksabstimmung in Oberschlesien) - one of the two plebiscites concerning the ethnic Polish-German borderland, which were designated in 1919 in the Versailles peace treaty that ended World War I. The plebiscite was held on March 20, 1921, and was preceded by two uprisings by the Upper Silesian population demanding that the region be annexed to Poland.