Winter-War Aid-Lottery Large poster with a smiling salesman and a yellow lottery ticket advertising the million Reichsmark Lottery

The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008. 

Winter-War Aid-Lottery Large poster with a smiling salesman and a yellow lottery ticket advertising the million Reichsmark Lottery 

overall: Height: 32.630 inches (82.88 cm) | Width: 23.120 inches (58.725 cm) 

Advertising poster encouraging German citizens to support the Winter Charity Campaign by purchasing a 50 pfennig ticket for the National German Lottery with a prize of 1 million Reichsmarks. The Winter Charity Campaign (WHW) was the Nazi People’s Welfare Organization’s (NSV) annual charity campaign held every winter from 1933 to 1945 to provide money, clothes, and food to German people in need. 

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Large poster on gray newsprint with a narrow white border featuring a nonrealistic portrait of a smiling man with red cheeks wearing a gray hat with a swastika, the number 162 in white, a red band and a collar. On the left is a drawing of a yellow, rectangular lottery ticket with German text in black ink. Across the top is the title in fraktur typeface in bold, black ink. Across the lower portion is an announcement of the lottery prize in large bold cursive in red ink with additional German text in black ink. front, top, on hat above swastika, gray ink : Reichs / Lotterie [National Lottery] front, lottery ticket text, top, yellow ink : WHW . . . [Winter Charity Campaign. . .] front, lottery ticker text, black ink : Ein Volk hilft sich selbst! / Kriegs- / Winterhilfswerk / des Deutschen Volkes [A People help themselves! / War Winter Aid of the German People] front, lottery ticket text, center, yellow ink on a black background : LOS PREIS / 50 / PFENNIG [ITEM PRICE / 50 / PFENNIG] front, lottery ticket text, right, gray ink : Reichsleitung / der NSDAP. [National leadership of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party]