Ask the women and children whom Hitler is starving whether rationing is too great a "sacrifice"
Crayon-style drawing in brown of gaunt, hollow-eyed children holding up empty bowls, with a headline asking readers to put the question of rationing to the women and children Hitler is starving. The image of hunger is set against American rationing to make it look small by comparison; the drawing is attributed by its signature to an artist outside the poster's issuer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (OWI Poster No. 18), drawing signed Kollwitz
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- 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)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-384 (NAID 513836).
Text on the object
Ask the women and children whom Hitler is starving whether rationing is too great a "sacrifice" [signature: Kollwitz (handwritten, partly legible)] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—494616] [imprint: OWI Poster No. 18. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.]
