World War Two
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Beat him! (British poster, 1942)
Text: In Germany … someone is doing the same job as you. Beat him! Year: 1942 Publisher: Unknown. Artist: Roy Nockolds. Additional information: Encouraging greater industrial productivity, showing a Nazi hard at work.
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Books are weapons in the war of ideas (American poster, 1942)
Text: Books are weapons in the war of ideas. Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man’s eternal fight against tyranny. In this…
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If you talk too much, this man may die! (American poster, 1942)
Text: If you talk too much, this man may die! Year: 1942 Publisher: Unofficially issued. Artist: Private Ivan A. Smith. Additional information: This poster was apparently an unofficial initiative by Private Ivan A. Smith, a soldier stationed at Camp Hood in Texas and editor of The Hood Panther, a magazine published at the base throughout…
