The Führer Protects You from Want Large campaign poster with a drawing of 2 stacks of coins to illustrate Nazi Party charity efforts
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 32.750 inches (83.185 cm) | Width: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm)
Creator(s)
- Hugo Fischer (Publisher)
- H. Meier (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 produced for the March 29, 1936, Reichstag election and plebiscite on the remilitarization of the Rhineland. Designed by Hans Meier, it presents a then: 1932 and now: 1935 illustration with stacked coins surrounded by needy people to show the increase in Winter Charity donations received and aid provided thanks to Hitler. The Winter Charity was an annual campaign held by the Nazi People’s Welfare Organization 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 offwhite newsprint poster with the title across the top in German text in large font, with red ink. In the center is a drawing of 2 stacks of coins surrounded by men, women, and children in work clothes: the stack on the left [Früher (Then)] is ¼ the size of the other, and has fewer people than the right [Heute (Now)]. There are text captions in red ink above each stack with a heading, lines of diagonal text, and 3 short lines of horizontal text. Across the lower edge is more German text in a large font in black ink. The poster is missing a large section on the right side and near the left corner. Variant of 2008.342.6.
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Reichstag
Subjects
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
- Elections
- Political campaigns--Germany--History--20th century.
- Propaganda, Germany--20th century.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
- Elections--Germany--History--20th century.
- Nazi propaganda--Germany.
Genre
- Posters
- Object