This poster was commissioned by the Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten [National Council of Jewish Frontline Soldiers] in the 30s when the ever growing anti-Semitism in Germany necessitated reminding the Germans that 12.000 Jews had died in World War I. Many Germans believed that Jews were shirking military service. A census conducted in 1916, however, revealed that well over 100,000 Jews served in the army, 80, 000 of them on the front, where twelve thousand Jews died. This number was disproportionately high compared to the fatalities of non-Jews and confirmed their willingness to die for their country. The results of the count remained unpublished throughout the war, thus enabling the myth of Jews shirking their duty to continue.