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
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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (illustrated by Jack Betts)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Race and ethnicity, Religion
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-660 (NAID 514139).
Text on the object
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
