Our Children's Future by Adolf Hitler Large campaign poster with a drawing of a smiling mother and her 3 blonde children who have a bright future thanks to Adolf Hitler
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 33.880 inches (86.055 cm) | Width: 23.880 inches (60.655 cm)
Creator(s)
- Hugo Fischer (Publisher)
- Werner von Axster-Heudtlass (Designer)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (Distributor)
Archival History
The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
Scope and Content
Nazi propaganda poster produced for the March 29, 1936, Reichstag election and plebiscite on the remilitarization of the Rhineland. It features a drawing by Werner von Axster-Heudtlass depicting an idealized German mother with three young children. It reminds votes of the programs launched by Hitler’s government to celebrate Motherhood and to provide support to racially pure families. The election had only Nazi party candidates. The referendum was to approve, after the fact, the German reclamation of sovereignty of the Rhineland in western Germany, an area that had been demilitarized under the Treaty of Versailles; 98.9% of the population voted in support of the Nazis.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Large poster on offwhite newsprint featuring a reproduction of a charcoal and pencil drawing of a blonde woman, eyes closed, holding a young blonde boy, eyes looking upward, wearing a plaid shirt, his arms around her neck and their faces touching. Close on her right side is a slightly older smiling blonde boy wearing a white collared shirt and, on her left, a young smiling blonde girl. There is red shading around the group right side. Across the top is the title in German text in bold, black ink; Adolf Hitler is printed very large in red ink across the lower section.
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Reichstag
Subjects
- Elections
- Elections--Germany--History--20th century.
- Propaganda, Germany--20th century.
- Nazi propaganda--Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
- Political campaigns--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Posters
- Object