So hilft dein Geld Dir kämpfen! In U-Boote verwandelt, hält es Dir feindliche Granaten vom Leib! (This Is How Your Money Helps You Fight! Turned into U-boats, It Keeps Enemy Shells off Your Body!)
A ghostly figure in a naval cap puts an arm around a steel-helmeted soldier and points to a ship burning and sinking on the horizon. The text turns a subscription into U-boats and U-boats into shells that never reach the soldier: a one-step chain with no figures for tonnage sunk, submarine losses or the campaign's wider consequences.
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Imperial German war-loan campaign; artist Lucian Bernhard
- 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
- War and the military, Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in the U.S. (published before 1931)
Bernhard, Lucian, artist; Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik, DLC, former owner. 1917. Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-11518.
Text on the object
So hilft dein Geld Dir kämpfen! In U-Boote verwandelt, hält es Dir feindliche Granaten vom Leib! Darum: zeichne Kriegsanleihe!
This is how your money helps you fight! Turned into U-boats, it keeps enemy shells off your body! Therefore: subscribe to the war loan!
A small printed credit line at bottom right (likely the printer's imprint, 'Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin' per the poster's production credit) is too small to read confidently in this scan and is not transcribed.
