Large campaign poster featuring a train crossing the globe to show donations raised thanks to the prosperity brought by Nazi Party rule
Extent and Medium
a: Height: 23.500 inches (59.69 cm) | Width: 23.000 inches (58.42 cm)
b: Height: 9.880 inches (25.095 cm) | Width: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm)
Creator(s)
- Hugo Fischer (Publisher)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (Distributor)
Archival History
The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
Scope and Content
Nazi propaganda poster, torn into 2 sections, produced for the March 29, 1936, Reichstag election and plebiscite on the remilitarization of the Rhineland. It depicts a train stretching from Germany to Africa to demonstrate the large amount of donations received by the Winter Charity Campaign from 1933 to 1935. This was the Nazi People’s Welfare Organization’s (NSV) annual fundraising event to provide money, clothes, and food to German people in need. The election had only Nazi party candidates. The referendum was to approve, after the fact, the German reclamation of sovereignty of the Rhineland in western Germany, an area that had been demilitarized under the Treaty of Versailles; 98.9% of the population voted in support of the Nazis.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Large newsprint poster with German fraktur text in red and white ink against a black background with a narrow white border. The central image reproduces a drawing of a light gray globe with white shapes representing the continents of Europe and Africa. In the lower foreground, a black steam locomotive engine travels through Africa, behind it a line of traincars narrows to a thin black line that extends towards a red dot near the top of the globe that represents Berlin. The letter components in this record are temporary assignments for cataloging purposes only. The poster is in 2 separate sections; a. the upper 2/3 of the poster; b. the lower 1/3.
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Reichstag
Subjects
- Nazi propaganda--Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
- Elections--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
- Elections
- Propaganda, Germany--20th century.
- Political campaigns--Germany--History--20th century.
Genre
- Object
- Posters