The article offers information on "Children in the country" as that was written in large letters on posters that were posted in the churches of the Rhineland in the Archdiocese of Cologne in 1917, signed by important personalities from the civil service and church including the Minister of State Georg Freiherr von Rheinbaben, the Archbishop of Cologne Felix Cardinal von Hartmann and the district presidents in Düsseldorf, Trier, Cologne and Koblenz.