Translation: "The eternal Jew"

Comments: As you can imagine, anti-semitic propaganda was pretty common in Hitler's Germany. Note the Russian map/flag under his arm. This draws on German suspicions that German Jews were passing information to Russian Jews, and thus assisting the Russian war effort.

Translation: "The Jew: The inciter of war, the prolonger of war."

Comments: Another anti-Semitic poster, this one from late in the war.

Translation: "All Germany Listens to the Fuhrer"

Comments: Dictatorships are usually built around a cult of loyalty. This poster reminds people to listen to Hitler's radio broadcasts.

Translation: "March 13, 1938: One people, one Reich, one Fuhrer"

Comments: This was published shortly after Germany conquered Austria. The map blends Germany and Austria as one country.

Translation: "Youth Serves the Fuhrer. All 10-year-olds into the Hitler Youth."

Comments: Membership in Hitler Youth was mandatory by this time.

Translation: "Crush the enemies of Germany."

Comments: These are supposed to be caricatures of the leaders of France, England, and Sweden. Russia was still Germany's ally at the time.

Translation: "Long Live Germany."

Comments: In class, we saw a poster designed to make Roosevelt appear god-like. Here we see the same with Hitler.

Translation: "Sending children to the countryside."

Comments: This may not seem like a negative poster, but it is. The reason children had to be sent to the countryside was that the cities were being bombed by the U.S. and Great Britain. So, this poster is meant to remind Germans of the children who are being victimized by Allied bombing.

Translation: "The forest of the dead at Katyn."

Comments: This is an anti-Russian poster. It is meant to remind Germans of the reported atrocities that Russians committed against German soldiers at the Battle of Katyn. Note that this one is not in German, it's in Serbian. It was meant to inspire soldiers from that country who had joined the army.

Translation: "Germany must die!" (top) and "This is the 8-point plan of Germany's enemy" (middle) and "German people! You know that our eternal enemy and adversary has always had the intention, and now they have a plan to annihilate us. Fight, Work, Triumph!"

Comments: This one's somewhat unusual. In 1940, before the U.S. was involved in World War II, a nut case named Theodore N. Kaufman, who was American, published a book entitled Germany must Perish. In the book, he proposed that all Germans be sterilized and that German territory be divided up among its neighbors. The information in the poster is largely--and accurately-- taken from the book. This includes the map for dividing up Germany. However, where the poster twists the truth is in its suggestion that Kaufman was a close friend and adviser of Roosevelt, and that he was working with Stalin and Churchill to implement the plan (see the pictures at the top left). This is entirely untrue--Kaufman's book was self-published and sold almost no copies. In other words, his message reached nobody, especially not the president.