Young Siegfried Promotional film calling for subscription to the 9th war bond. Enacted scene from the Nibelungen saga; Siegfried forges a sword and slays the dragon with it. Insert: "Germany of today,...
Hann, Hein and Henny Advertisement for the 7th War Bond. Sailors of the U-303 write a postcard to the actress Henny Porten with the following text: "We would like to subscribe to 1000 marks worth of w...
A Word From Hindenburg on War BondsPromotional film calling for subscription to the 5th war bond. Image: Handwritten letter from Hindenburg: "The German people will beat their enemies not only with th...
A quick-draw artist sketches a picture for the 8th war bond with the call "Home and Front! The 8th must be the greatest - sign!" Source: Bundesarchiv
Advertisement for the 6th war bond. Trick to increase the national wealth. Source: Bundesarchiv
Lefrancois, a father of six, is a soldier. His seventh child is on the way and will be named Victory. Lefrancois cannot remember why he tied a knot in his handkerchief. Although he has received the Wa...
In October 1918, posters hung in the Paris streets implore passersby to subscribe to the fourth national loan to "regain all of France's sweet land." Parisians can see trophies of war such as the subm...
Advertising film for the 6th war bond. Mother Froehlich receives a hundred mark bill for her watch at the gold collection point. Mother Froehlich has the streetcar conductor Lehmann give her pennies f...
This short silent film uses a theatrical plot to promote financial support for German troops at the front: Janssen, a citizen, wants to persuade his brother-in-law Kramer to sign war bonds. To support...
Advertisement for the subscription of the 6th war bond. The actors are a stocking, a wallet and a little pig. Trick shots of a stocking, a piggy bank and a wallet offering their contents for the subsc...
Advertisement for the 7th war bond. Factual tricks showing how interest rates evolved from October 1917 to 1937. Source: Bundesarchiv
Advertising film for the 8th war bond. A film about Germany's national wealth is shown in a cinema. At the end, the audience is asked to "Sign the eighth war bond! The eighth can and must be oversigne...
Advertisement for the 8th war bond. German weapons on a table: carbine, hand grenades, gas mask and steel helmet, plus banknotes and moneybags. Inscription: "German weapons, German money and German st...
Advertisement for the 7th war bond. Cartoon with intertitles in verse, with John Bull's expression changing to a grimace after each war bond. Ending with: "German men, German women! Let John Bull look...
Advertisement for the 9th War Bond. Eight arrows hit a target, the ninth hits the center. The symbolized Englishman feels hit in the heart and falls on the target. The poster reads: "The 9th arrow sig...
Advertisement for the 9th war bond. Play scene: A citizen is counting his money in his piggy bank. An old woman appears in his room and gives him a magic flask. When he pours the contents on a white s...