Content note: Shows a swastika hanged from a gallows by a noose. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Don't talk us out of this!
Security poster: a black gallows with a yellow rope and noose, from which a swastika hangs, on an orange ground, over the headline 'Don't talk us out of this!' and the line 'Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut!' with a small aircraft symbol. The enemy emblem is shown executed, a fear-appeal pairing silence with victory; the swastika stands in for the enemy as a whole, a name-calling device.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- OCASC Intelligence Section (production credit as printed)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- 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)
OCASC Intelligence Section. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-688 (NAID 514168).
Text on the object
PRODUCTION OF OCASC INTELLIGENCE SECTION DON'T TALK US OUT OF THIS! KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN AND YOUR MOUTH SHUT! [signature: illegible mark in small circle at lower right]
