Helft uns siegen! Zeichnet die Kriegsanleihe (Help Us Win! Subscribe to the War Loan)
A steel-helmeted German infantryman stares out of the frame beneath the imperative 'Help us win!' The soldier's exhausted resolve is transferred onto the war-bond ask, and 'winning' stands in as an undefined virtue word the buyer is not asked to weigh against cost or odds.
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Imperial German government war-bond campaign; artist Fritz Erler
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- German Empire
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- German Empire
- Leader
- Wilhelm II
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Fear appealTransferGlittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons), retrieved September 25, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published before 1923)
Fritz Erler, 1917. Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-12475.
Text on the object
Helft uns siegen! zeichnet die Kriegsanleihe Entw: Fritz Erler, München. Druck: Fritz Maison, München.
Help us win! subscribe to the War Loan Design: Fritz Erler, Munich. Print: Fritz Maison, Munich.
The blackletter headline uses the historical long s (ſ), printed as 'Helft uns ſiegen!'; transcribed here as modern 'siegen'. 'Entw.' (Entwurf, design) and 'Druck' (print) credit lines run in small print along the bottom edge of the poster, separate from the artist's cursive 'Erler' signature inside the illustration itself.
