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Large poster with a smiling salesman and a yellow lottery ticket advertising the million Reichsmark Lottery

Object | Accession Number: 2008.342.8

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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Advertising poster encouraging German citizens to support the Winter Charity Campaign by purchasing a 50 pfennig ticket for the National German Lottery with a prize of 1 million Reichsmarks. The Winter Charity Campaign (WHW) was the Nazi People’s Welfare Organization’s (NSV) annual charity campaign held every winter from 1933 to 1945 to provide money, clothes, and food to German people in need.
    Artwork Title
    Kriegs-Winterhilfe-Lotterie
    Alternate Title
    Winter-War Aid-Lottery
    Date
    publication/distribution:  approximately 1940
    Geography
    publication: Germany
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
    Markings
    front, title, top, black ink : Kriegs-Winterhilfe-Lotterie [War-Winter Aid-Lottery]
    front, center, right edge, black ink : LOS PREIS / 50 Pfg. (oversize) [ITEM PRICE / 50 Pfennig]
    front, lower left edge, black ink : In jeder Serie [In each series]
    front, lower center, cursive, large, red ink : 1 Million / RM / Gewinne [1 miillion / Reichsmarks / Winnings]
    front, lower center, white ink on black background: sofortiger Gewinnentscheid [Winner decided instantly]
    Contributor
    Distributor: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Classification
    Posters
    Category
    Nazi propaganda
    Physical Description
    Large poster on gray newsprint with a narrow white border featuring a nonrealistic portrait of a smiling man with red cheeks wearing a gray hat with a swastika, the number 162 in white, a red band and a collar. On the left is a drawing of a yellow, rectangular lottery ticket with German text in black ink. Across the top is the title in fraktur typeface in bold, black ink. Across the lower portion is an announcement of the lottery prize in large bold cursive in red ink with additional German text in black ink.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 32.630 inches (82.88 cm) | Width: 23.120 inches (58.725 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink
    Inscription
    front, top, on hat above swastika, gray ink : Reichs / Lotterie [National Lottery]
    front, lottery ticket text, top, yellow ink : WHW . . . [Winter Charity Campaign. . .]
    front, lottery ticker text, black ink : Ein Volk hilft sich selbst! / Kriegs- / Winterhilfswerk / des Deutschen Volkes [A People help themselves! / War Winter Aid of the German People]
    front, lottery ticket text, center, yellow ink on a black background : LOS PREIS / 50 / PFENNIG [ITEM PRICE / 50 / PFENNIG]
    front, lottery ticket text, right, gray ink : Reichsleitung / der NSDAP. [National leadership of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party]

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    Conditions on Use
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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008.
    Funding Note
    The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
    Record last modified:
    2024-04-29 07:56:35
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