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
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.
