This simple graphic design from 1969 encourages Germans to deposit their money in traditional postal savings accounts, emphasizing the potential interest rates in bright orange. These accounts, allowing people of modest means without ready access to banks to save money securely, were first established in Britain in 1861 and many other European countries and the United States soon followed. The funds were typically invested in government securities and covered by government guarantees. However, due to resistance from the banks, postal savings accounts were not fully established in Germany until they were instituted by the Nazi regime in January 1939–when they proved highly popular. In the first year, some one hundred thousand new postal savings books were issued to German citizens.