---
title: Für die Kriegsanleihe! (For the War Loan!)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/german-fuer-die-kriegsanleihe-1917/
description: A winged child in a black-white-red sash, a sickle at its hip, holds a steel helmet pierced by holes and heaped with coins.
section: Collection
---

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[![Für die Kriegsanleihe! (For the War Loan!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/german-fuer-die-kriegsanleihe-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/german-fuer-die-kriegsanleihe-1917.jpg)

# Für die Kriegsanleihe! (For the War Loan!)

A winged child in a black-white-red sash, a sickle at its hip, holds a steel helmet pierced by holes and heaped with coins. The helmet is a soldier's, and the cherub is a figure of innocence; the poster pastes both onto the act of subscribing, and gives no loan number, interest rate or terms.

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Für die
Kriegsanleihe!
[small imprint at lower left: W. Hagelberg Akt.-Ges., Berlin, rest illegible]
Bestellwort: Engel.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
For the war loan!
[small imprint at lower left: W. Hagelberg Akt.-Ges., Berlin, rest illegible]
Order word: Angel.
```

The imprint at lower left is small and only partly legible in this scan.

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