Keywords: Einrichtungsgegenstaende.jpg By 1918 the German economic situation had become so desperate that the government confiscated personal items made of metal The poster designed by Louis Oppenheim reads Home Furnishings made of Aluminum Copper Nickel Tin are Confiscated - Deliver Them Now The Proclamation No M /1 18 from KriegsRohstoffAbteilung War Materials Department of March 26 1918 is to be in view at all collection points The metals collected in this way were melted down and used for the war effort http //germanhistorydocs ghi-dc org/sub_image cfm image_id 1728 1918 Louis Oppenheim 1879 - 1936 PD-art Louis Oppenheim Advertising posters of Germany World War I posters of Germany World War I in March 1918 |