Content note: Dehumanizing image of a Partisan drawn as a louse, tied to typhus. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Čuvaj se partizana! Čuvaj se tifusa! (Beware of the Partisan! Beware of Typhus!), Independent State of Croatia
Black-and-white poster of a large louse whose head is a grimacing human face in a cap with a five-pointed star, the Partisan emblem, with drops falling from its body. The two headlines pair 'the Partisan' with 'typhus' in the same warning, drawing a Partisan and a disease-carrying insect as one creature.
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- State Propaganda Office of the Independent State of Croatia (as attributed on Wikimedia Commons)
- Country
- Independent State of Croatia
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Ustasha Regime
- Leader
- Ante Pavelic
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-callingFear appeal
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in Croatia (PD-Croatia; anonymous, pre-1949), not URAA-restored
State Propaganda Office, Independent State of Croatia; via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
ČUVAJ SE PARTIZANA ! ČUVAJ SE TIFUSA !
BEWARE OF THE PARTISAN! BEWARE OF TYPHUS!
Read from the committed image; there is no other text on the sheet.
