# This Is Nazi Brutality (1942), the Lidice quotation

This Is Nazi Brutality is a 1942 US government poster. It quotes a Radio Berlin announcement dated 6/11/42 that the men of Lidice had been shot, the women deported to a concentration camp, and the children sent to centers.

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      This Is Nazi Brutality

      This Is Nazi Brutality (1942), the Lidice quotation
      A 1942 US poster quotes a Radio Berlin announcement of 6/11/42 on Lidice under the headline "This is Nazi brutality." The FRAME tombstone prints no NAID.

## Techniques named on the archive record

Fear appeal
      Date1942Made byU.S. government campaignMediumPosterCountryUnited StatesRegimeRoosevelt AdministrationSourceIdentified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they areSourceWikimedia Commons , retrieved October 2, 2026SourcePublic domain (U.S. government work) U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
      Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records.

      Full record at propagandaarchive.org

  This Is Nazi Brutality is a 1942 US government poster. It quotes a Radio Berlin announcement dated 6/11/42 that the men of Lidice had been shot, the women deported to a concentration camp, and the children sent to centers.

## What the sheet prints

The FRAME catalog dates this poster 1942. The archive slug carries 1943. The date this page uses is the catalog date. The lines under the headline are printed as a Radio Berlin announcement dated 6/11/42. The catalog describes a hooded figure in handcuffs against brick walls, with no face shown. This page does not add a history of Lidice beyond those lines.

This is Nazi brutality

RADIO BERLIN.--IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED:-

ALL MEN OF LIDICE - CZECHOSLOVAKIA - HAVE BEEN SHOT:

THE WOMEN DEPORTED TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP:

THE CHILDREN SENT TO APPROPRIATE CENTERS-- THE

NAME OF THE VILLAGE WAS IMMEDIATELY ABOLISHED.

6/11/42/115P

Transcription in the FRAME record. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. The tombstone does not print a NAID.

## Issuer and rights

The maker line is a U.S. government campaign. The rights line calls the sheet a public-domain U.S. government work of the National Archives and Records Administration, from Wikimedia Commons, retrieved by the archive on 2 October 2026. No separate NAID is in the tombstone.

The same wartime title "This is the enemy" belongs to a different sheet, OWI Poster No. 76. Both are linked from anti-Nazi propaganda and the gallery.

## Sources

- FRAME object record, This Is Nazi Brutality. Catalog date 1942. Wikimedia Commons, retrieved by the archive 2 October 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. government work), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/this-is-nazi-brutality-1943/