Wanted in Prague

A red poster shows a stylised cartoon figure with a side-parted fringe, toothbrush moustache and raised hands, in the pose of a wanted or arrested man, above the words 'WANTED in PRAGUE'. The tell is the caricature of Hitler's likeness combined with the wanted-poster format, which casts him as a fugitive without stating any charge.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Name-calling

Date: 1939
Period: Second World War
Made by: Issuer not stated; no imprint visible
Region: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country: Czechoslovakia
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Czechoslovak Government in Exile
Leader: Edvard Benes
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Demonize
Theme: War and the military
Event: World War II
Source: Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Issuer not stated. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-778.