This item is held in the Department of Ephemera; formerly at NLI call number POL/1930-40/2.

Handbill advertising a talk by Ernst Toller in Rathmines Town Hall. Brown font on buff coloured paper; features a caricature of Adolf Hitler on upper left-hand side of handbill with the words “HITLER” underneath. Full text of handbill reads: “HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT / HITLER GERMANY! / ERNST TOLLER / The World Famous Author Who Was Exiled / By The Hitler Government / WILL SPEAK AT A / GREAT PUBLIC MEETING /IN THE / RATHMINES / TOWN HALL / On Sunday, January 13, at 7.45 p.m. /MR. F. R. HIGGINS / Member, Irish Academy of Letters, Will Preside / MISS DOROTHY WOODMAN, London, Dr. / A.J.Leventhal, M.A., Mr. R.J. Connolly, / Mr. Peadar O Donnell, Mr. Sean Murray, / and others will also speak / ADMISSION 6d. and 1s. (payable at door) GALLERY FREE / Support the world demand for the release of / ERNST THAELMANN [sic] / (The Famous Leader of the German Workers) / and all anti-Fascist prisoners / ISSUED BY THE IRISH LABOUR LEAGUE AGAINST FASCISM”. Ernst Thälmann (note - surname spelt incorrectly on handbill) was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD - Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) during the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944. Ernst Toller was a German Communist playwright who was tortured by the Nazis and went into exile, committing sucide in New York in May 1939.

Physical description: 1 handbill ; 28.9 x 22.4 cm.