Sources

  1. German Social Democratic Party (SPD): Call to Rebuild the Party Organization (June 15, 1945)

  2. Appeal to the German People by the Christian Democratic Union (June 26, 1945)

  3. Programmatic Guidelines for the Free Democratic Party (February 4, 1946)

  4. Political Principles of the Social Democratic Party (May 1946)

  5. KPD Banner on Ruined Theater Buildings in Hamburg (November 1946)

  6. SPD Campaign Rally with Kurt Schumacher (at the Microphone) on Königsplatz in Munich (November 25, 1946)

  7. The Ahlen Program of the CDU (February 1947)

  8. Kurt Schumacher Opens the SPD’s Federal Election Campaign in Gelsenkirchen by Rejecting Ludwig Erhard’s Free Market Economics (June 19, 1949)

  9. The CDU and the “Social Market Economy”: Düsseldorf Guidelines for Economic Policy, Agricultural Policy, Social Policy, and Housing (July 15, 1949)

  10. Kurt Schumacher’s Message to Voters before the First Postwar Elections in West Germany (August 12, 1949)

  11. The “Action Program” of the Socialist Reich Party (SRP) (1949)

  12. Federal Minister Erhard on Market Economy and Planned Economy (June 26, 1950)

  13. SPD Party Chairman Kurt Schumacher (October 8, 1950)

  14. Petition Submitted by the Federal Government to the Federal Constitutional Court Requesting a Ban on the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) (November 22, 1951)

  15. “All Marxist Paths Lead to Moscow”: Election Poster for the Christian Democratic Union (1953)

  16. Federal Chancellor Adenauer Starts his Election Campaign in Heppenheim (Summer 1953)

  17. SPD Politician Herbert Wehner (October 1954)

  18. Federal Constitutional Court Verdict Banning the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Concluding Justification (August 17, 1956)

  19. Police Occupy the Publishing House of the KPD-Mouthpiece Freies Volk [Free People] in Düsseldorf on the Day of the Verdict against the Party (August 17, 1956)

  20. Banning of the West German Communist Party (August 19, 1956)

  21. SPD Chairman and Chancellor Candidate Erich Ollenhauer Campaigns in the Ruhr Valley (August/September 1957)

  22. Godesberg Program of the SPD (November 1959)

  23. “Demnächst nicht in diesem Theater”: CDU Election Campaign Ad (1961)