# Anti-Nazi propaganda

Anti-Nazi propaganda here means United States posters and films of 1941–1945 that name or picture Nazi Germany, starting with five named sheets and a poster gallery. German-produced Nazi posters are outside this hub.

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  Anti-Nazi propaganda here means United States posters and films of 1941–1945 that name or picture Nazi Germany, starting with five named sheets and a poster gallery. German-produced Nazi posters are outside this hub.

The sheets below were printed in the United States, mostly by the Office of War Information or the Treasury, between 1941 and 1945. They name Nazi Germany, Hitler, or a swastika, or they are films and bond pictures from that same wartime information effort. This hub does not collect German government posters, and it does not use those posters' head term. A broad gallery of wartime posters in general stays with the FRAME archive.

## Where to start

This Is the Enemy is Office of War Information Poster No. 76 (1943): a swastika armband and a bayonet through a Bible. That page is the one this site uses for the shared poster title. It is not a Japanese caricature. The anti-Japanese hub links it for that reason and keeps its own sheets at anti-Japanese propaganda. He's Watching You (Glenn Grohe, 1942), This Is Nazi Brutality (1942, quoting a Radio Berlin line dated 6/11/42), The Nazis burned these books (OWI Poster No. 66, NAID 513828), and Right in Der Fuehrer's Face (Treasury, 1942) follow. The gallery is the wider set of US sheets.

Der Fuehrer's Face (1942) is the Disney short the Academy lists, with no still. Prelude to War (1942) is the first Army orientation film. The Office of War Information is the agency index. Four Freedoms posters are the Rockwell paintings and the OWI bond sheets.

## How was US anti-German imagery in World War II different from the WWI Hun posters?

On the objects this edition holds, the 1943 OWI sheet stands for Nazi Germany with a swastika and a stabbed Bible, and it prints no face. The 1918 sheet Halt the Hun and the 1917 sheet Destroy This Mad Brute use an earlier ethnic insult for Germany. Those essays are already on this site. They are a previous war's pictures, not a second copy of Poster No. 76. A count of every anti-German sheet across both wars is not what this page is.

## Why was propaganda used in World War II?

The US offices in this hub printed sheets that named an enemy and asked for a bond, a book, salvage, or silence. Executive Order 9182 created the Office of War Information on 13 June 1942 to circulate information about the war's status and aims. The Army's orientation films, beginning with Prelude to War, were a separate War Department project for soldiers. Those are the uses the records here document. This page does not grade the result.

## What this hub does not take as a title

"Careless talk costs lives" is a British phrase, usually the Fougasse posters, and it is not a US campaign title here. The 1942 Seagram sheet Loose lips might sink ships is a security poster already on this site. It does not depict Nazi Germany, and the slogan is not a heading on this hub. The German American Bund is not a section. Posters produced in Nazi Germany are not relabeled as American anti-Nazi sheets.

  United StatesThis Is the Enemy, 19431943 · Scapegoating, Transfer, Fear appealUnited StatesHe's Watching You1942 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating, TransferUnited StatesThis Is Nazi Brutality1942 · Fear appealUnited StatesThe Nazis burned these books1943 · Fear appeal, Glittering generalitiesUnited StatesRight in Der Fuehrer's Face1942 · Name-calling, TransferUnited StatesUS anti-Nazi postersUnited StatesDer Fuehrer's FaceUnited StatesPrelude to War (1942), the first Army orientation filmUnited StatesOffice of War InformationUnited StatesFour Freedoms posters

Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/anti-nazi-wwii/