This festive float, complete with Germania, illustrates the insertion of nationalist allegory into the cultural fabric of local and regional festivals throughout Germany. Even in Bavaria, where particularist skepticism about a Prussian-dominated empire persisted for many years, it seemed natural by 1881 that the German Federal Shooting Festival should include such an ostentatious display of national pride.
Source: Germania at the German Federal Shooting Festival in Munich.
Photograph (1881).
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