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title: Getting the Boot
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-getting-the-boot-1943/
description: A stout figure in a Fascist-style uniform with a swastika armband, dazed and with stars circling his head, is blown or kicked off the map of Italy.
section: Collection
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**Content note:** A caricatured figure in a Fascist-style uniform with a swastika armband is shown dazed and blown off the boot-shaped map of Italy, as published in the Washington Evening Star. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Getting the Boot, 1943 US cartoon: A stout figure in a Fascist-style uniform with a swastika armband, dazed and with stars](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-getting-the-boot-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-getting-the-boot-1943.jpg)

# Getting the Boot

A stout figure in a Fascist-style uniform with a swastika armband, dazed and with stars circling his head, is blown or kicked off the map of Italy, labelled ITALY, which is drawn in boot shape; his cape streams behind and his boot soles are visible. The tell is ridicule by caricature: the figure is shown as comic and defeated rather than described, and the pun on 'the boot' carries the message.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ITALY
JIM BERRYMAN
```

[← Cartoon of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/roosevelt-churchill-chiang-cartoon-djawa-baroe-1943/) [Cover of the Japanese magazine Manga (漫画), August 1943: caricature of Franklin D. Roosevelt →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/manga-magazine-roosevelt-cover-1943/)

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