Content note: Depicts the crucifixion of Christ under aerial attack, with swastika-bearing figures; shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Again
Painted wartime poster: a bomber marked with a swastika fires streams of tracers at a crucified Christ on a cross (INRI board) amid flames and rubble, while uniformed men beside swastika and rising-sun flags thrust a long pole up at the figure. The poster has one word of title and no instruction text. The technique is a fear-appeal using religious imagery to convey atrocity.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government war poster (artist credit printed: Thomas Benton)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Religion, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. government war poster. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-110 (NAID 513558).
Text on the object
INRI Again [credit: Painted by the Distinguished American Artist, Thomas Benton] [imprint: LITHO. IN U.S.A.]
