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title: Don't fall for enemy propaganda
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dont-fall-for-enemy-propaganda-vfw-1941/
description: 'Anti-rumour poster: a wide-eyed civilian in a bowler hat has a green-skinned caricature in a Japanese-style cap whispering at one ear and another'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricatured Japanese and German officers drawn with green skin, and the printed epithet 'Japs'. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Don't fall for enemy propaganda, 1941 US poster: Anti-rumour poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dont-fall-for-enemy-propaganda-vfw-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dont-fall-for-enemy-propaganda-vfw-1941.jpg)

# Don't fall for enemy propaganda

Anti-rumour poster: a wide-eyed civilian in a bowler hat has a green-skinned caricature in a Japanese-style cap whispering at one ear and another in a swastika-badged cap at the other. The text lists propaganda 'against our government, our allies, against Catholics, Jews or Protestants', and ends 'Hitler and the Japs are trying to get us fighting among ourselves'. The caricatures and the epithet 'Japs' are name-calling; the sheet also warns of enemy divide-and-rule.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Don't fall for
ENEMY PROPAGANDA
- AGAINST OUR GOVERNMENT
- AGAINST OUR ALLIES
- AGAINST CATHOLICS, JEWS
or PROTESTANTS
Remember-Hitler and the Japs are trying
to get us fighting among ourselves
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES
[signature:] ILLUSTRATED BY JACK BETTS
```

[← Don't discuss secrets on the telephone (black-on-cream print)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dont-discuss-secrets-on-the-telephone-black-on-cream-1941/) [Don't gamble with death →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dont-gamble-with-death-1941/)

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- [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd.
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