This is Nazi brutality, , 1942

Item — Item: wwp00135

Identifier: Subseries 2.6:

Staff Only

Scope and Content of the Subseries

From the Sub-Series:

This subseries has miscellaneous posters covering propaganda against the Nazis, advertisement for a clothing drive, and a message by General Eisenhower to defeated Germans in the United States Zone.

Dates

Creation: 1942

Creator

United States. Office of War Information (Creator, Organization)
Shahn, Ben (Artist, Person)

Languages

From the Collection:

Languages represented in the collection: English and French.

Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 330 posters

Additional Description

Dimensions

28.25 x 38 in.

Note

Poster showing a man with a cloth sack covering his head and with his wrists chained to a brick wall, as if awaiting execution. Text continues in the form of a telegram: "Radio Berlin. It is official 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". Poster art by Ben Shahn. Produced by the Office of War Information, No. 11. Printed: [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942, O-491104. Reference Number: wwp00135