Germans during the referendum in East Prussia, 1920

In the framework of the Versailles Treaty, referendums in various border areas of the German Reich should decide about national affiliation. Those entitled to vote, who lived in the Reich, were allowed to travel to the place of their birth to cast their vote. The photo shows people who were eligible to vote, among them a Catholic nun, on their way to the train to Marienburg

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