Content note: Wartime leaflet showing Hitler and Mussolini under the labels 'tyrants' and 'neuropath'. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Ecco i vostri alleati (Here Are Your Allies): British propaganda booklet for Italy
The cover spread of an Italian-language booklet shows Mussolini and Hitler laughing in an open car, with a 50-centesimi Italian stamp image (printed in blue) laid across them, a box 'Tyrants who laugh, peoples who bleed' and the title 'Here are your allies'. The caption box labels Hitler 'the neuropath'; the Italian state's own stamp image is pasted onto the photograph to turn its alliance symbol against it.
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British government (attributed to the Political Warfare Executive on the Commons page; no issuer is printed on the pages shown)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Books and pamphlets
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Enemy civilians
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (psywar.org scan), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright expired; PD-UKGov)
British Government (PWE), 1941. Via psywar.org and Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
ECCO I VOSTRI ALLEATI Tiranni che ridono, popoli che sanguinano Il sorriso di Hitler rivela la soddisfazione del neuropatico, mentre il suo ex-servo, visibile in ultima pagina, lega l'Italia al destino nazista. [stamp image:] 50 POSTE ITALIANE 50 [illegible - ghosted show-through text from the facing page at upper right, beginning "L'a" and "Musso"]
HERE ARE YOUR ALLIES Tyrants who laugh, peoples who bleed Hitler's smile reveals the satisfaction of the neuropath, while his former servant, visible on the last page, ties Italy to the Nazi destiny. [stamp image:] 50 ITALIAN POST 50 [illegible - ghosted show-through text from the facing page at upper right, beginning "L'a" and "Musso"]
The hyphen in 'ex-servo' falls at a line break in the original. Translation is a literal machine rendering by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
