Content note: A 1940 cartoon showing a caricature of Adolf Hitler wearing a swastika armband and a caricature of Benito Mussolini slipping on a puddle labelled 'Greece', with Hitler's speech rendered in a mock German accent, as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
A Bum in the Beanery
A figure with a swastika armband and toothbrush moustache leans from a kitchen hatch shouting about Benito while a uniformed figure slips on a puddle labelled 'Greece', sending a tray labelled 'Hitler's Balkan Plans' flying. The cartoon ridicules both Axis leaders through slapstick and a mock German accent.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- November 13, 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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, Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743120 (NAID 5743120).
Text on the object
DOT BENITO! HE CAN'T BE TRUSTED MIT ANYTING DOING IT RIGHT! HITLER'S BALKAN PLANS GREECE JIM BERRYMAN
