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title: Buy Victory Bonds (To Berlin and Tokyo)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-heil-hitler-to-berlin-and-tokyo-buy-victory-bonds-1939/
description: A soldier with a 'CANADA' shoulder title and fixed bayonet stands before a ruined wall with a burning skyline.
section: Collection
---

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[![Buy Victory Bonds, 1939 Canada poster: A soldier with a 'CANADA' shoulder title and fixed bayonet stands before a ruined wall](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-heil-hitler-to-berlin-and-tokyo-buy-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-heil-hitler-to-berlin-and-tokyo-buy-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)

# Buy Victory Bonds (To Berlin and Tokyo)

A soldier with a 'CANADA' shoulder title and fixed bayonet stands before a ruined wall with a burning skyline. A torn 'Heil Hitler' notice is crossed out and covered by a new sheet reading 'To Berlin and Tokyo', above 'Buy Victory Bonds'. The tell (transfer) is the link of a soldier's advance and the defacing of enemy slogans to the act of buying bonds.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Heil Hitl[er] [crossed out]
To BERLIN and Tokyo
[shoulder title:] CANADA
Buy VICTORY BONDS
```

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