Period
Second World War propaganda in the collection
500 objects, listed by date.
Illustration, not an archive object
Empire of JapanTitle card from a captured Japanese newsreel: the Emperor commends the Xuzhou campaign (May 1938)
United KingdomAre You One of These? 80 Absentees - 80 Tons Lost or One Tank Less (Ssh - Don't Wake Him)Content note
United Kingdom'Askari wetu washinda Wajapani / Smash the Japs!' (British poster for East Africa)Content note
United Kingdom'ATS: Cook for the Troops' (British Auxiliary Territorial Service poster)
United KingdomATS in the Bakeries
United KingdomBattle for Fuel: Exhibition on How to Save Fuel - a coal mine comes to town (Lewis's)
United KingdomBattle for Fuel: Use Less Coal & Coke
United KingdomBattle! How WE are helping in the Battle
United KingdomBattle! How WE are helping in the Battle: Hurricanes must have Zinc and Sulphuric Acid
United KingdomPlease Bring Your Books Here - National Book Recovery and Salvage Appeal, Official Depot
United KingdomAre You a Skilled Artisan Desiring Promotion to the Rank of Acting Armament Staff Serjeant?
United KingdomBritain has sent to Russia ... Our Products Fight on Russian Fronts!
United KingdomBritain's Mechanised Army on the March: Keep Going with War Savings
United KingdomBritish Weapons to Defeat Hitler - Britain Has a Far More Powerful Fleet Than the Enemy
United KingdomBritish Weapons to Defeat Hitler - Britain is Building 30,000 Tanks to Destroy Her Enemies
United KingdomClean Rags - Dirty Rags - All Are Wanted!
United KingdomA Clear Plate Means a Clear Conscience: Don't Take More Than You Can Eat
United KingdomClouds Can Help (Air Diagram No. 1293-2/40)
United Kingdom'Convoy your country to victory: buy Defence Bonds' (British National Savings poster)
United KingdomCrack for Victory: Your palm kernels when cracked help to feed the Empire's fighting menContent note
United Kingdom'Dig for Victory' (British Ministry of Agriculture poster, child with spade)
United KingdomDon't Waste Kitchen Scraps: The Nation Needs Them Now
United KingdomEat Greens for Health - Feed Right to Feel Right
United KingdomElectrical Work is War Work
United KingdomEvery Rivet a Bullet - Speed the Ships
FinlandVakuutusyhtiöt ovat jo merkinneet viidenneksen lainasta (The Insurance Companies Have Already Subscribed a Fifth of the Loan): Finnish loan board on a truck
FinlandKansanlaina on maamme varmuusvahti! (The People's Loan Is Our Country's Safeguard!): Finnish loan board on a truck
FinlandTääll' ovat jo taattomme taistelleet (Here Our Fathers Have Already Fought): Finnish poster before the Winter War
FinlandVarokaa! Vakoilija! (Beware! Spy!): Finnish Winter War poster
United KingdomFood is a munition of war: don't waste it
United KingdomFront-Line Breakdowns Can Lose Battles - That's Why Our Workmanship Counts
United KingdomOfficial Instructions Issued by the Ministry of Home Security - Gas Attack
United KingdomGuard Against VD: Venereal Disease
United KingdomHelp Britain Finish the Job!
United KingdomHe's in the Silent Service - Are You?
United KingdomOur High Explosives are Beating the U-Boats
United Kingdom'My Struggle!' by Adolf Hitler, the sculptor (British poster in Arabic)Content note
United KingdomHow Your Salvage Helps to Make a Rescue Launch
United KingdomI am on War Work, Do Not Hinder Me! Send Your Greetings by Letter
United KingdomI Need Your Rags
United KingdomKeep Calm and Carry On
United KingdomKeep It Dark: Careless Talk Costs Lives
United Kingdom'Keep it under your hat!' Careless Talk Costs Lives
China打死汪精衛,打死漢奸們! (Beat Wang Jingwei to death, beat the traitors to death!), Kangweijun Pictorial vol. 1 no. 3
United KingdomLend a Hand on the Land
United KingdomLend a Hand With War Savings
United Kingdom'Let 'em all come: Home Defence Battalions, men 41-55' (British Army recruiting poster)
United KingdomNext Winter's Milk Supply for Children and Nursing Mothers Depends on This Season's Hay: Make Hay While the Sun Shines
United KingdomMosquito Bulletin No. 1: Our Target is their Success
United KingdomMothers let them go - give them a chance of greater safety and health (Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme)
United Kingdom"Now Up At Our Works..." He Talked... ...This Happened - Careless Talk Costs Lives
United KingdomOrder it now! Store Fuel for Next Winter
United KingdomPlan and Grow for Winter: Summer Glut Leaves Winter Short, Take Warning Now and Don't Get Caught
United KingdomPut your trust in the Navy & your money in Savings Certificates
United KingdomRadiolocation - Train with the Army or with the A.T.S.
United KingdomReinforce Children's Clothes: They Will Last Twice as Long
United KingdomA Savings Group is a Victory Group
Soviet UnionSuomen armeijan sotilaat! (Soldiers of the Finnish Army!): Soviet leaflet signed by named Finnish prisoners
New ZealandThe "Spirit of Anzac" Calls You: Enlist Now for Overseas Service (Second N.Z. Expeditionary Force)
United KingdomTake a Pride in Being Fighting Fit
United Kingdom3,000 Children Die From it Every Year
United KingdomAccidents with Ammunition
United KingdomAction Stations: The A.T.S. Go to War - Salute Them with War Savings
United KingdomAddress Your Letters Plainly
United KingdomLetters to the Forces and the Merchant Navy (Airgraphs get priority)
United KingdomArmy Exhibition: Come and see the equipment of a Division
United KingdomATS as Signal Operators
United KingdomATS at the Wheel
United KingdomATS - Be Active - Be Useful
United KingdomATS Carry the Messages
United KingdomA.T.S.: For Information Ask at Any Army or A.T.S. Recruiting Centre or at the Nearest Employment Exchange
United KingdomEvery Member of the ATS Learns a Job That Will Help Her to Earn Her Living in the Post-War World
United KingdomBritain's New Airborne Army Goes into Action in Europe - Back Them Up!
United KingdomBeware: Never give away the movements of H.M. Ships
United KingdomBeware the Squander Bug
United KingdomBlood donors are needed urgently to save lives (Emergency Blood Transfusion Service)
United KingdomBlood Donors Now - 30 Minutes of Your Time, a Lifetime to Somebody Else
United KingdomBlood Donors Wanted - Your Blood Can Save the Life of Someone...Somewhere
United KingdomBones Help to Fire the Guns - Put Out More Bones and Save More Ships
United KingdomBristles Are Scarce, Brushes Are Precious (Ministry of Supply No. 114)
United KingdomBritish Weapons to Defeat Hitler - Britain's Air Force is Now Stronger than Hitler's
United KingdomBritish Weapons to Defeat Hitler: More and More Guns Come Daily from the British Factories
United KingdomCamouflage Nets: Baffle the Hun
United KingdomCan I Do Without It? Less Shopping Means More Shipping!
United KingdomCarry Your Identity Card Always
United KingdomChoose for Victory - Try a V Dish To-Day
United KingdomCut It Out and Lend What You Save Through War Savings
United KingdomCut the last three inches of your loaf this way
United KingdomDiphtheria is deadly - Immunisation is the safeguard
United KingdomDiphtheria is one of the most deadly children's diseases
United KingdomDiphtheria Causes Unnecessary Suffering and Anxiety
United KingdomDomestic Front: Make-Do and Mend (Household & Clothes Economy Exhibition)
United KingdomDon't Burn Up the Miles: it burns up your tyres
United KingdomFarmers All Over the Country Need All the Help Available to Gather This Year's Vital Harvest - Free Ships for the Second Front
United KingdomField-Marshal 'Potato Pete'
United KingdomFight the Moth - It's the moth grub that does the damage
United KingdomFrom 1 to 5 Years Is the Vital Period
United KingdomThe Germs of this Disease are Everywhere
United KingdomGive 'Em Both Barrels
United KingdomGoing Ashore? Keep what you know to yourself (English, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, French)
United KingdomGood Arc Welders Watch - Good Welds Help Win the War!
United KingdomEvery Available Piece of Land Must Be Cultivated - Grow Your Own Food - Supply Your Own Cookhouse
United KingdomGrow Your Own Food [2]
United KingdomGrow Your Own Food [1]
United KingdomA Gun For Every Job - Buy War Savings - Hit the Target
United KingdomHe Needs Our 'Ammo' to Shoot Down Huns
United KingdomHelp Britain Finish the Job!
United KingdomHelp the City Children - making a new home for Evacuees is a National Service
United KingdomIf you can't go to the factory help the neighbour who can
United KingdomHis Rifle Will Fire - Will Mine?
United KingdomHow Good Drivers Save Their Tyres and Serve Their Country
United KingdomHow to Get Free Immunisation
United KingdomHow to Tackle a Fire Bomb
United KingdomI Need Bones for Explosives
United KingdomI Need Your Scrap Metal
United KingdomI'm Fighting Food Says Potato Pete
United KingdomI'm Looking for You - Fever - Malaria
United KingdomImmunisation Is the Only Safeguard
United KingdomImmunisation Is Simple, Safe & Free
United KingdomIs Your Child Protected?
United KingdomJoin the Wrens: and free a man for the fleet (Women's Royal Naval Service)
United KingdomWomen's Royal Naval Service - Join the Wrens
United KingdomKeep a Guard on What You Say..
United KingdomKeep It Up: Save and Lend Through the Post Office Savings Bank and Trustee Savings Banks
United KingdomLack of Vitamins Can Strangle His Health
United KingdomLake Transport in AfricaContent note
United KingdomLearning to be Doctors in FijiContent note
United Kingdom'lend a hand on the land'
United KingdomLend to Defend His Right to be Free - Buy National Savings Certificates
United KingdomLetters for the Forces & Merchant Navy: airgraphs are the cheapest form of air communication
United KingdomLetters for the Forces in the Middle East and Beyond
United KingdomMightier Yet! Britain's Mechanised Army grows stronger every day
United KingdomMinistry of Supply - Service Speakers
United Kingdom'More Ships - Come on!' War Savings are Warships
United KingdomNational Book Recovery and Salvage Appeal: Take your unwanted Books to the Receiving Depot
United Kingdom'National Day of Prayer: Put your trust in God, as I do' (His Majesty the King)
United KingdomNational Savings for Victory (nest of eggs with savings stamps)
United KingdomNever Scrape or Bump the Kerb
United KingdomNo Child, However Good its Health and Home, is Safe
United KingdomNo Spares - No 'Ammo
United KingdomNow That Our Men Have Landed on Enemy Soil Surely No One Will Endanger Their Supply of Vital Munitions by Taking Unnecessary Journeys
United KingdomO God Our Help... We lift our living nation a single sword to thee
United KingdomPut Out Your Old Hot Water Bottle for Salvage
United KingdomParaffin Economy: Use Less and Waste None
United KingdomPersonal Cleanliness
United KingdomPlan and Grow for Winter: Winter Fruits from Overseas Have Now to be Replaced by These
United KingdomPlan and Grow for Winter: Planned Crops for Garden Wealth, Assure the Family's Winter Health
United KingdomPost Office Telegraphists at War Work - Telegraph Less
United KingdomPotatoes - the Nation's Iron Ration (Make Sure of a Full Plate)
United KingdomPrivate Scrap builds a bomber (exhibition)
United KingdomPut Out More Salvage and Save More Shipping
United KingdomPut Out Your Old Motor Tyre for Salvage
United KingdomPut Out Your Old Rubber Boots for Salvage
United KingdomPut Out Your Waste Rubber for Salvage
United KingdomPut Your Share Out Into War Savings and Share in Victory
United KingdomRags Make Blankets
United KingdomRags Make Machine Wipers
United KingdomRags Make Navy Charts
United KingdomRags Make Uniforms
United Kingdom"Raise the Standard" of War Savings
United KingdomRelease More Coal for the War Drive
United KingdomShell Containers from Waste Paper: Put Out More Waste Paper, It Will Save More Shipping
United KingdomAre You Sufficiently Skilled in Your Trade to Earn a Higher Trade Rate?
United KingdomThank You, says the soldier: Caring for Evacuees is a National Service
United KingdomGive thanks to the everyday heroes of Britain's Merchant Navy
United KingdomOn the Road to Recovery - Thanks to You Blood Donor
United KingdomWork for a Record Harvest: Only by frequent hoeing can weeds be destroyed
United KingdomVentilate Your Quarters
United KingdomYou Know More Than Other People
United KingdomYour Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory
United Kingdom'Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us victory' (British Ministry of Information poster)
United KingdomYour Tin makes ENGINE PARTS for army lorries: Thank you Nigeria!Content note
Nazi GermanyDie Geissel Gottes: Polnische Juden (Der Stürmer, October 1939)Content note
Empire of Japan銃後の總親和 第二回總選挙 (Total Harmony on the Home Front: Second General Election), Taiwan
NetherlandsAllen in de Nederlandsche Unie (All in the Netherlands Union)
AustraliaWin the war: Australian Labor Party Senate ticket, New South Wales (1940)
SpainAuxilio Social: Para que en España no haya un niño sin alegría, suscribe una ficha azul (cinema slide)
United KingdomA British Cruiser Ramming an Italian Submarine in the Mediterranean - Back Them Up!
United Kingdom'Better pot-luck with Churchill today than humble pie under Hitler tomorrow' (British Ministry of Food poster)Content note
United KingdomCareless Talk Costs Lives: "...strictly between these four walls!"
United KingdomCheck Their Identity by the A.B. 64: Soldiers and A.T.S.
General GovernmentChodźmy na roboty rolne do Niemiec! (Let us go to agricultural work in Germany!)
United Kingdom'Dig for Victory' banner across the Royal Exchange, London, used as a Ministry of Information poster site
United KingdomDo You Know the Recognition Signal?
United KingdomFall in the fire-bomb fighters! (Herbert Morrison)
FinlandОни так веселы потому что вырвались к счастливой жизни (They Are So Cheerful Because They Broke Free to a Happy Life): Finnish leaflet for Red Army soldiers
United KingdomHydraulics - Safety First (Air Diagram 1298)
Empire of Japan秘密戰ヲ防ゲ (Guard Against Secret Warfare), Japanese home-front counterintelligence poster
Empire of Japan10 sen stamp for the 2600th year of the imperial era, inscribed 八紘一宇 (Hakkō ichiu) (1940)
Slovak RepublicNebuď služobníkom žida (Do Not Be the Jew's Servant), Slovak StateContent note
SwedenPå post för Sverige (On Post for Sweden): preparedness postcard with hymn stanza
Nazi GermanyPourquoi mourir pour l'Angleterre? (German propaganda banners, western front)Content note
Nazi GermanySchonen Sie Ihren Organismus (Spare Your Organism)
United KingdomTaxying - The Necessity for Good Look-Out
Thailandวัฒนธรรมของไทย (Thai Culture), dress-code poster of the Phibunsongkhram government
China我愈戰愈强,敵愈戰愈弱 (The more we fight, the stronger we grow; the more the enemy fights, the weaker he grows)Content note
United KingdomIn the Mediterranean, British Submarines Have Caused Great Havoc to Axis Shipping - Back Them Up!
United KingdomBeware of the Hun in the Sun
United KingdomIs he killing time ... or killing Nazis - Spares may decide
United Kingdom"Let Us Go Forward Together" (Churchill photograph poster)
United Kingdom"Never Was So Much Owed by So Many to So Few" (The Prime Minister)
United KingdomSafety Height for Bombing (Air Diagram No. 1295)
United KingdomLiberté (Belgian flag, 'Unity of Strength' design)
NetherlandsVrijheid - Recht - Welvaart (NSB poster)
United KingdomWolkiger Beobachter, Luftpost-Ausgabe, 1. Jahrgang Nr. 7 (Cloudy Observer, air-mail edition, front page)Content note
China中國工人 (Chinese Worker) no. 4, May Day special: contents page and Yan'an colophon
Nazi GermanyPour qui? Pour l'Angleterre! (German anti-British posters, France)Content note
Fascist ItalyIl Popolo d'Italia, 11 June 1940: 'Popolo italiano corri alle armi!' (front page)
Empire of Japan'Zeitaku wa teki da!' (Luxury Is the Enemy!) street sign, Tokyo
Empire of Japan'Let's hold the neighbourhood-association meeting': tonarigumi page, Shashin Shūhō No. 141
United Kingdom'A stitch in time saves coupons' (British Board of Trade clothes-rationing poster)
United KingdomAircraft of the R.A.F., Some Famous Types - II
Canada'Allons-y... Canadiens!' (Canadian Department of National War Services)
RomaniaAntonescu medal, 'Mareșal al României și Conducătorul Statului' (G. Stănescu, 1941)
United KingdomBeware Mushroomed Tools
Independent State of CroatiaČuvaj se partizana! Čuvaj se tifusa! (Beware of the Partisan! Beware of Typhus!), Independent State of CroatiaContent note
United KingdomEcco i vostri alleati (Here Are Your Allies): British propaganda booklet for ItalyContent note
Nazi GermanyEngelsche hongerblokkade (English hunger blockade)
United Kingdom'Feeding 45 Millions: Food Convoy' (British Ministry of Information poster)
FinlandPuna-armeijalainen: Katso! Minne sinua työntää Stalinin verinen käsi? (Red Army soldier: Look! Where Is Stalin's Bloody Hand Pushing You?): Finnish-language leaflet textContent note
United KingdomFreedom Shall Prevail!
United KingdomHow to Make Your Household Linens Last Longer
Vichy FranceIls assassinent ! Enveloppés dans les plis de notre drapeau (They murder! Wrapped in the folds of our flag)
Soviet UnionKõik NSV Liidu Ülemnõukogu valimistele! (Everyone to the USSR Supreme Soviet Elections!): Tallinn sweet wrapper
Empire of Japan'Daitōa sensō ni kachinukō!!' (Let's win the Greater East Asia War!) fuel-saving poster, Aichi
Nazi GermanyMänner und Frauen der Untersteiermark! (leaflet for enrolment in the Styrian Homeland League)Content note
NetherlandsMet Duitschland voor een vrij Nederland (NSB film end card)Content note
Netherlands'Mussert spreekt' (NSB film title card)Content note
RomaniaRomânii basarabeni, Bucovinenii și minoritarii pașnici (leaflet for Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Romanian and Russian sides)
United StatesSalvage Scrap to Blast the JapContent note
United KingdomSheer Carelessness
Soviet UnionSuomen sotilaat! (Soldiers of Finland!): Soviet leaflet on a springboard against the USSR and the fate of Denmark and Norway
Soviet UnionSuomalaiset sotavangit sotilastovereilleen (Finnish prisoners of war to their fellow soldiers): Soviet leaflet with seven named prisoners
Soviet UnionSuomalaiset sotilaat! (Finnish soldiers!): Soviet leaflet on a 'fratricidal war' and German masters
Soviet UnionSuomen mies! (Man of Finland!): Soviet leaflet with a Hitler-armband arm pushing a soldier past death notices
Empire of Japan'Stop useless resistance' (Japanese leaflet to the Hong Kong garrison)
United KingdomAircraft of the R.A.F.: Some Famous Types - I
United KingdomThe bombing in daylight of the power station at Knapsack, Germany, by the Royal Air Force - Back Them Up!
United KingdomBritish Field-Guns Smash a German Tank Attack at Point-Blank Range in Libya - Back Them Up!
United KingdomBack Them Up! (capture of U 570 by a Lockheed Hudson)
United KingdomPause when you go out into the dark to let your eyes get used to the Black-out
United KingdomRetailers' Pooled Delivery Service
United KingdomThe Straggler Invites Attack
Nazi GermanyV = Duitschland wint voor Europa op alle fronten (V = Germany wins for Europe on all fronts)
Soviet Union12. janvārī visi pie vēlēšanu urnām (On 12 January, everyone to the ballot boxes), Riga magazine spread on the USSR Supreme Soviet election, 1941
Empire of JapanAxis battledores (hagoita) and 'Axis young ladies': cover of Shashin Shūhō No. 151, Japan
NetherlandsVolk en Vaderland, front page (21 February 1941): "Joden - misdaad. Weerman Koot vermoord"Content note
United StatesThe Daily Alaska Empire, daily edition, front page (Juneau, Alaska Territory, June 23, 1941)
Soviet UnionStalinskoe znamya, daily edition, front page (Ryazan, June 23, 1941)
Nazi GermanyHet Bolsjewisme gooit het masker af (Bolshevism throws off the mask)Content note
General GovernmentV = Zwycięstwo Niemiec na wszystkich frontach (V = Victory of Germany on all fronts)
Soviet UnionMuscovites at TASS Window No. 5, 'What Hitler Wants' (Chego Gitler khochet)Content note
Romania"Publicațiune": Pașcani mayor's notice on a Jewish curfew and hostage executions, 4 July 1941Content note
United KingdomLuftpost No. 8, 9 July 1941: "Amerikanische Truppen in Island!" and "Drei Mächte - ein Kriegsziel!"Content note
United KingdomLuftpost No. 16, 2 September 1941: "Es gibt kein Zurück!" and "Der Weg der Pimpfe"Content note
Soviet Union'Kiitos tov. Stalinille onnellisesta lapsuudesta!' (Thanks to Comrade Stalin for a happy childhood): banner over a hut door, Vidlitsa
Empire of Japan中日基本條約簽訂一週年來矣! (The Sino-Japanese Basic Treaty's first anniversary has come!), four-panel leaflet for Hankou
Empire of JapanPainted wall sign with Jawi inscription and Japanese soldier, Kuching, Sarawak (photographed 14 September 1945)
United StatesThe Daily Alaska Empire, war extra, front page (Juneau, Alaska Territory, 7 December 1941): 'JAPS ATTACK HONOLULU AND MANILA'Content note
United StatesThe Daily Alaska Empire, daily edition, front page (Juneau, Alaska Territory, December 8, 1941)Content note
Soviet UnionKomsomolskaya Pravda, daily edition, front page (Moscow, December 9, 1941)
Soviet UnionKomsomolskaya Pravda, daily edition, page 4 article (Moscow, December 9, 1941)
Empire of Japan'Toki no tatefuda' (Notice Board of the Times), Shashin Shūhō No. 200, page 2 (24 December 1941)
Empire of JapanFrame from a Japanese newsreel of Wang Jingwei's New Year address, "Sekai no reimei" (Dawn of the Century)
United StatesAlaska - Death-Trap for the JapContent note
United KingdomArmoured Cars are Battle Spearhead
United KingdomAve Caesar! Morituri te salutant (British leaflet to Italy)Content note
United StatesAvenge December 7
Empire of JapanBelajarlah! Pakailah! Bahasa Nippon! (Learn! Use! The Japanese Language!)
United KingdomBattle for Fuel: Turn It Down When You Are Warm (Use Less Gas)
United Kingdom'A Grã-Bretanha, Defensora da Liberdade' (British poster in Portuguese)
Empire of Japan'BUT if you continue to resist...' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)Content note
Slovak RepublicChurchill and Stalin, 14-23 August (Dieppe), Ľudové novinyContent note
Empire of JapanDaitoa News (Nippon Eigasha newsreel), title card "American War Losses"
Nazi GermanyDer Untermensch (SS Main Office brochure, cover)Content note
United StatesDon't Let That Shadow Touch Them: Buy War BondsContent note
Australia'Don't thrash your vehicle!' (Australian vehicle-maintenance poster)Content note
United StatesDrive the Japs from the Aleutians! Our Bullets Will Do It!Content note
United StatesEnemy Ears Are Listening (OWI Poster No. 5)
United KingdomFuel Economy in the Foundry - Hints to Foremen for Saving Fuel - Save Fuel for Battle!
Australia'He's coming south. It's fight, work or perish' (Australian Department of Information)Content note
United StatesHe's Watching You
United StatesHit 'Em with Copper, Zinc, LeadContent note
Australia'"Honorable thanks" ABSENTEE' (Australian silkscreen poster, General Motors Holden)Content note
Kingdom of HungaryCarved stone: 'Az nem lehet, hogy annyi szív, hiába onta vért!!' (Vörösmarty, Szózat)
Dutch East IndiesNeen, Coen, ook wij burgers zullen niet dispereeren! (No, Coen, we citizens too shall not despair!)
United States"Jap Trap": Material Conservation (Douglas Aircraft poster)Content note
Empire of JapanNippon Eigasha Djawa newsreel "Japan conquers South-East Asia", date card "15 FEBRUARI 2602"
Empire of JapanJapanese leaflet in English, "Don't wait to die" (Philippines, 1942)
Slovak RepublicKam to dotiahnu? (Where will they get to?), Ľudové novinyContent note
AustraliaCinesound Review, Kokoda Front Line!, newsreel frame (title card, correspondent's credentials, 1942)
United StatesLet Me Do the Talking! Serve in Silence
CanadaLet's go... Canada! (Canada, 1942)
United StatesWe Are United Nations: Unity Is Strength (Life wartime poster, part 12)
United StatesLoose Lips Might Sink Ships
United StatesMore Production (Snowball over the Axis Leaders)Content note
United StatesMurder in Cold Blood: Let's Force the Japs to Pay (TCOP Poster Studio)Content note
United StatesOuch! The Japs Don't Like MosquitoesContent note
Australia'Put the squeeze on the Japanese' (Australian industrial-effort poster, General Motors Holden)Content note
United KingdomNotice: Rags, Rope and String Must Not Be Destroyed, Thrown Away or Mixed With Refuse
United StatesRemember Dec. 7th!
United StatesRemember Pearl Harbor. Enlist Now! United States Coast Guard
United StatesRight in Der Führer's Face! Invest Now... Buy More BondsContent note
SpainAyudad a la obra social de la Sección Femenina poniendo un sello de José Antonio en vuestras cartas (cinema slide)
United StatesSomeone Talked!
Soviet UnionLietuvos darbo žmonės! Lietuviai! (Working People of Lithuania! Lithuanians!): Soviet May Day leaflet for German-occupied Lithuania
Soviet UnionSuomalainen sotilas! (Finnish Soldier!): Soviet safe-conduct leaflet, Continuation War
Australia'The Spearhead reaches SOUTH - ALWAYS SOUTH!' (Curtin leaflet)
Australia'The enemy listens. Your words are his weapons.' (Australian careless-talk poster)Content note
Empire of Japan'Daitōa kizuku chikara da, kono ippyō' (This one vote is the power that builds Greater East Asia) election poster
United StatesThis Is Nazi BrutalityContent note
United StatesThis Man Is Your Friend: Chinese. He Fights for Freedom
United StatesThis Man Is Your Friend: Russian. He Fights for Freedom
United StatesTokio Kid Say: If Not Working Hard for "E's" (poster no. 714)Content note
United StatesTokio Kid Say: Oh So Joyful for Mishap (Douglas Aircraft poster)Content note
United StatesTokio Kid Say: Rivets on Floor (Douglas Aircraft poster no. 812)Content note
United StatesTomorrow May Be Too Late!Content note
United KingdomAccidents are Bottlenecks - Prevent Them
United KingdomAirborne Forces
United KingdomBack Them Up! (Stirling bombers raid Lübeck)
United KingdomBravo! British Shipyards
United KingdomThe Man Who Wasted Power! Don't Be Fuel-ish
United KingdomIt Does Matter: Country Pays For It - Don't Waste Here the Fuel You Save at Home!
United KingdomDon't Waste Here the Fuel You Save at Home
United KingdomFence or guard all openings
United KingdomHeadache for Hitler: It Takes More Than 12 Tons of Coal to Make This Torpedo
United KingdomThe Man Who Wasted Gas! Don't Be Fuel-ish
United KingdomThe Man Who Wasted Gas! Don't Be Fuel-ish
United KingdomThe Man Who Would Not Close the Doors - Don't Be Fuel-ish
United KingdomA Message for Us!
United KingdomNotice: Waste Rubber Must Not Be Destroyed, Thrown Away or Mixed With Refuse
United KingdomOutcrop Workers! A Reserve of Coal is as Important as a Reserve of Shells
United KingdomSwitch Off - Stop It - Turn Off - Save Fuel for Battle!
United KingdomPrivate Scrap Goes to the Front: A Salvage Exhibition at Charing Cross Underground Station
United KingdomFor You to Produce Cold Someone Must Burn Fuel - Save Fuel for Battle!
United KingdomHow You Can Save Fuel in the Foundry - Ten Rules for the Foundry Man
United KingdomNotice: Waste Paper and Cardboard Must Not Be Destroyed, Thrown Away or Mixed With Refuse
United KingdomThe Worker Who Left the Lights On! Don't Be Fuel-ish
United StatesWanted! For Murder — Her Careless Talk Costs Lives
United StatesWar Bonds Will Keep Him PunchingContent note
United StatesWhat Do You Say, America? (Admiral Yamamoto quotation)
Independent State of CroatiaŽidovi: izložba o razvoju židovstva (Jews: Exhibition on the Development of Jewry), ZagrebContent note
Empire of JapanJapanese semi-postal stamps overprinted "Singapore fell", 2 sen + 1 sen and 4 sen + 2 sen (February 1942)
Empire of JapanStill from "Chabar Dai Toa" no. 31, Japanese newsreel with Indonesian-language title cards for occupied Java (1942)
United States'I am an American' sign in the window of the Wanto Co. store, Oakland
Nazi GermanyLe judaïsme tend à l'hégémonie mondiale (panel, Le Bolchevisme contre l'Europe exhibition, Paris)Content note
China鴉片戰爭史畫 (Pictorial History of the Opium War), cover
United States'Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry' (exclusion order posted in San Francisco)
Empire of JapanCrosses in the Wake of Allied Blockade, Japan Times & Advertiser cartoon
NetherlandsOok zoo tevreden? Hij werkt in Duitschland (Just as satisfied? He works in Germany)
Empire of Japan'Bullets and cannon too, from savings': munitions price spread, Shashin Shūhō No. 225
Soviet UnionKomsomolskaya Pravda, 4 July 1942: 'Master of the Ram' (Master tarana), front-page profile of pilot Aleksey Khlobystov
Nazi GermanyNähstube des BDM: Plakat »Wir folgen Dir« (Berlin)Content note
Empire of Japan15 sen definitive stamp showing a saluting boy aircraftsman (1942)
BelgiumGroot Ruimte-Economie (VNV lecture poster, Ostend)
Empire of Japan10 sen stamp with a map of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (1942)
Empire of JapanStamps for the first anniversary of the Greater East Asia War, 2+1 sen and 5+2 sen (1942)
United StatesAll the Ear-Marks of a Sneaky Jap!Content note
United StatesUnited We Are Strong, United We Will Win
United StatesAmericans Will Always Fight for Liberty
Free FranceBCRA forged Vichy 30c Pétain-Laval stamp, sheet of twenty (London, 1942-44)
United StatesBits of Careless Talk Are Pieced Together by the EnemyContent note
United StatesChina Fights On
China越接近勝利 越要堅苦奮鬥 (The Closer to Victory, the Harder We Must Struggle), Military Affairs Commission poster
China敵人侵略一日不止,我們抗戰一日不休! (As Long as the Enemy Keeps Invading, We Keep Resisting), Military Affairs Commission poster
CanadaEux aussi achètent des obligations de la Victoire (Canada Victory Loan, French-language poster)
United KingdomHimmler-head forgery of the 6-pfennig Deutsches Reich stamp
United StatesHon. Spy Say: Thanks for the Can You Throw Away!Content note
United StatesHurry That Ship Along, Will You? And Give Us Another Crack at the Japs!Content note
Empire of JapanMatchbox label, Japanese wartime propaganda in Malay: "Tentoe dapat kemenangan" (Victory will surely be won), No. 3 (c. 1943)
Empire of JapanJapanese leaflet for India in Hindi and Bengali: Allied leaders pull an Indian (1943)
United StatesJapanese Relocation (Office of War Information film), opening text card
United StatesJappy So-o-o Happy When This Happens to You (Navy Department Safety Poster)Content note
United StatesJaps Execute Doolittle Men. We'll Pay You Back TojoContent note
Australia'Join us in a victory job' (Australian Department of National Service)
United StatesKeep Punching ... in the Battle of Production: Beat Your PromiseContent note
United StatesLet's Fly This Flag: Everybody at Least 10 Percent in War Bonds
China'Let's go cherry-blossom viewing' (anti-war league leaflet to Japanese troops)
United StatesMake His Nightmare Come True!Content note
United StatesMake Your Own Declaration of War: Buy War Bonds
United StatesMaterials Are Precious! Let's Make Every Piece Count!Content note
United StatesThe More Women at Work the Sooner We Win!
United StatesNap and Help a Jap: 'Careless Carl' Greases His TruckContent note
United StatesNavy Men Who Buy War Bonds Help Break the Japs (Admiral Halsey)Content note
PortugalO futuro do trabalhador é uma das preocupações da acção social do Estado Novo (The worker's future is one of the concerns of the Estado Novo's social action)
NetherlandsOranje-Bode, first issue, 1943: birth of Princess MargrietContent note
United StatesPut the Squeeze on the Japanese: Beat Your PromiseContent note
United StatesWhen You Ride Alone, You Ride with HitlerContent note
AustraliaRinged with menace! Bar the gates with 'Beauforts' (Australian aircraft-production poster)
Empire of JapanSedari Menanam Hingga Memetik (From Planting to Harvest)
United KingdomSepsis: Get First Aid
United StatesShe May Look Clean—But
United StatesThank You So Much, American Soldier, for Wasting Food (Help Tojo Win War)Content note
United StatesThe Jap Way: Cold-Blooded Murder. We'll Make Them Pay If You Keep Up ProductionContent note
Australia'The Jap will get you first if you neglect to protect driving bands of shells' (LHQ ammunition-care poster no. 6)Content note
United StatesThe Jig is Up If You Keep Buying War BondsContent note
United StatesThis Is the EnemyContent note
United StatesThis Isn't War... It's Murder (U.S. Army Official Poster)Content note
Empire of JapanNippon Eigasha newsreel, intertitle on Prime Minister Tojo's visit to Java and the Central Advisory Council
Nazi GermanyTu défends la Belgique... en luttant au front de l'Est (You defend Belgium... by fighting on the Eastern Front)Content note
United KingdomAsking For It
United StatesUnited We Win
United StatesU.S. Bonds. Axis Bonds. Take Your ChoiceContent note
United States戰機萬架 掃蕩三島 (Ten Thousand Warplanes Sweep the Three Islands), U.S. Office of War Information poster in Chinese
Vichy FranceLa Grande-Bretagne n'a pas cessé d'être une île (Great Britain has not ceased to be an island), ORAFF poster
Vichy FranceJ'aimerais mieux rendre l'âme à Dieu (I would rather give up my soul to God), ORAFF poster
NetherlandsVliegende forten, vliegende doodkisten! (Flying fortresses, flying coffins!)Content note
United StatesWe Can Do It!
United States"We'll Lick 'Em - Just Give Us the Stuff!"Content note
Australia'We'll take care of the Japs, mates, if you'll take care of our food' (Australian food-hygiene poster)Content note
United Kingdom'Wer hatte recht?' ('Who was right?') (Allied leaflet to Germany)
United KingdomForged Winterhilfswerk stamp booklet (British black propaganda for Germany)Content note
United StatesWhy We Fight: The Battle of Britain (film frame)
AustraliaWork, Save, Fight and so Avenge the Nurses! (Centaur poster)
China中華民國萬歲 (Long Live the Republic of China), Military Affairs Commission Political Department poster
Kingdom of GreeceΛευτεριά, έκτακτη έκδοση, 5 Φεβρουαρίου 1943 (Freedom, extra edition: organ of the EAM of the Young)
Nazi GermanyTotaler Krieg – kürzester Krieg (Total War – Shortest War): the Sportpalast rally of 18 February 1943Content note
Empire of JapanPage 'Pemoeda: Asia Timoer Raja' aimed at Indonesian youth, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 March 1943)
Empire of Japan'Dangan kitte' (Bullet Stamps) war-savings lottery advertisement, back cover of Shashin Shūhō
General GovernmentAufruf / Zaklyk: call to join the SS-Schützendivision Galizien (Sanok)Content note
Empire of JapanPoster 'Nippon Mengoeasai Laoetan' (Japan controls the seas), Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)
Empire of JapanCartoon of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)Content note
Empire of JapanCover of the Japanese magazine Manga (漫画), August 1943: caricature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
United StatesCatania, Sicily: reading Allied news under U.S. and British flags, 1943
General GovernmentBiuletyn Informacyjny No. 42 (197), 21 October 1943: 'Zapowiedź' and 'Samoobrona i odwet'Content note
Empire of Japan'Students, from today we are the Emperor's shield': student conscription examination, Shashin Shūhō No. 297Content note
Empire of JapanDjawa Baroe cover no. 23, "Tari meroentoehkan Amerika dan Inggeris" (A dance to bring down America and England), 1 December 1943
Australia'90% of the world's rubber is in Japanese hands: Save rubber' (Australian Army poster)Content note
TransnationalRomâni, siliți guvernul vostru (RAF and US Army Air Forces leaflet to Romanians, 1944)
Yugoslavia"Amnestija do 15. I. 1945 / Po 15. I. 1945" (Amnesty until 15 January 1945 / After 15 January 1945), Slovene Partisan leafletContent note
Nazi GermanyAufruf! / Poziv! Männer der Jahrgänge 1914-1926 (call-up in the Adriatic Littoral)Content note
United StatesAward for Careless TalkContent note
United KingdomBack the Boys with War Savings: Save at least a Bob in the Pound every Pay Day [3]
United KingdomBack the Boys with War Savings: Save at least a Bob in the Pound every Pay Day
United StatesTango no sekku (Boys' Day) carp-banner leaflet (I07-J-1)
United KingdomBack the Boys with War Savings: Save at Least a Bob in the Pound Every Pay Day (bomb loading)
United StatesBuy This Man a Hari-Kari Kit on December 7, 1944Content note
Empire of Japan'Denryoku wa senryoku!' (Electric Power Is Military Power!) home-front poster
United StatesHe Can't Forget Pearl Harbor - Can You? Buy Bonds
Kingdom of HungaryWall inscription '1 keresztényér[t]! 100 zsidó' (1 Christian [for] 100 Jews), HungaryContent note
United StatesJap... You're Next! We'll Finish the Job! (U.S. Army, James Montgomery Flagg)Content note
Empire of Japan'Hey! You diggers! He came, he saw, he conquered!' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)Content note
Empire of JapanStill from "Japanse propaganda tentoonstelling", Japanese military propaganda film shot in Java (c. 1944)
United StatesJapan's Life Line (leaflet 10-J-1, MacArthur and Nimitz cutting the supply lines)
Yugoslavia"Krvniki, čas obračuna prihaja!" (Executioners, the time of reckoning is coming!), Slovene Partisan leafletContent note
Manchukuo滿洲中央銀行百圓 (Central Bank of Manchukuo, 100 yuan note, 1944)
United StatesThe Operation of Democracy (Minshushugi no un'yo), Japanese-language U.S. poster
United StatesNext! (Japan) 6th War Loan
United States...Remember Me? I'm Still Fighting You! (Official Navy Poster)Content note
United StatesSo the Jap's a Snap? I Can't See It (U.S. Army Official Poster)Content note
Soviet UnionSoldat roman! (leaflet to Romanian troops in the Crimea, 1944)
Nazi GermanyStaking brengt alleen ellende over uw eigen volk (Strike brings only misery upon your own people)
United StatesWhat Are You Going to Do About It? Stay on the Job Until Every Murdering Jap Is Wiped Out!Content note
United StatesThe Avenger's Shadow: More Metal for U.S. Planes, Tanks, GunsContent note
United StatesAir-raid notice: 'This city is the next target' (US leaflet to Japanese civilians)
United StatesWe'll Take Care of the Rising Sun, You Take Care of Rising Prices
United States'Yesterday's enemy is today's friend' (US leaflet 18-J-1 to Japanese troops)
United StatesYour Enemy the Jap (Official Navy Poster)Content note
General GovernmentBekanntmachung, Warsaw, 2 February 1944: 100 condemned prisoners shot in publicContent note
Empire of JapanRadio Manila Tagalog talk 'look up for American planes' and the 'reorientation' campaign, as monitored by the OSS (1944)
Empire of JapanRadio Tokyo and Manila items on guerrilla amnesty and surrender, as monitored by the OSS (1943-44)
PolandManifest i pierwsze dekrety Polskiego Komitetu Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN Manifesto poster), July 1944
Provisional Government of Free IndiaAzad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 7 November 1944)
Nazi GermanyTag des Deutschen Volkssturmes in der HauptstadtContent note
Nazi GermanyVorbeimarsch des Volkssturms an Goebbels (Vereidigung, Berlin)Content note
Empire of Japan'Beware of the Triple Threat!!!' leaflet for American troops on Mindoro (1944-45)
Nazi GermanyDie neue Volkssturmarmbinde (PK-H 6365)Content note
United StatesU.S. soldier steps from defeated Germany to Japan (PWB propaganda sheet)Content note
United StatesThis American Airman Drives the Jap from China's Skies: Give Him Your Help! (Chinese New Year poster)Content note
United StatesGet the Jap and Get It Over! (War Manpower Commission)Content note
United StatesSmall Figures Assembling a Swastika-Marked Mechanical Giant (untitled)Content note
United StatesAttention American Soldiers! I Cease Resistance (surrender pass, leaflet 17-J-1)
NetherlandsIk val aan... volgt mij (I attack... follow me)
Empire of Japan'American Officers and Men' (Japanese leaflet on the death of President Roosevelt, Okinawa)Content note
Empire of Japan'The Spectre Commands' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)
United StatesKnow Your Enemy: Japan, text card quoting a Japanese Army press officer on a 'hundred years war'
United StatesKnow Your Enemy: Japan, animated frame of looming uniformed figures above a crouching farmerContent note
United StatesKnow Your Enemy: Japan, War Department Orientation Film title card (OF-10)
PortugalMulher portuguesa: a Salazar o deves! Votai por Salazar (Portuguese woman: you owe it to Salazar! Vote for Salazar)
United States恭賀新禧 (Happy New Year): Chinese soldier as door god, Chinese-language poster stamped Office of War InformationContent note
United StatesThe Little Jap Is a Big Job! (U.S. Army Official Poster)Content note
United StatesUrgent Notice: Fighting Men and Materials Are Being ShiftedContent note
Provisional Government of Free IndiaAzad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 1 February 1945)
Provisional Government of Free IndiaAzad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 22 February 1945)
Provisional Government of Free IndiaAzad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 23 February 1945)
NetherlandsAruba (Maandblad), monthly, no. 1, cover (Oranjestad, March 1945)Content note
NetherlandsAruba (Maandblad), monthly, no. 1, foreword page (Oranjestad, March 1945)Content note
Nazi GermanyDecoration of a Hitler Youth member, March 1945
Empire of JapanRadio Tokyo Reports on Iwo, as quoted in a U.S. Army intelligence bulletin
Empire of JapanRadio Tokyo Says, 18-21 March 1945 claims, as quoted in a U.S. Army intelligence bulletin
United KingdomNachrichten für die Truppe, No. 358, 9 April 1945
Empire of JapanStill from "Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei" (Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors), Japanese navy-sponsored animated feature
Provisional Government of Free IndiaAzad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 16 April 1945)
Provisional Government of Free IndiaAzad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 20 July 1945)
United StatesAtlanta Daily World, daily edition, front page (Atlanta, Georgia, August 7, 1945)Content note
Provisional Government of Free IndiaAzad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 7 August 1945)
United StatesThe Evening Star, daily edition, front page (Washington, D.C., August 7, 1945)Content note
Provisional Government of Free IndiaAzad Hind, English edition, page 2 (Syonan/Singapore, August 8, 1945)
United StatesPrivate Snafu: No Buddy Atoll, frame of a dazed Japanese naval officer caricatureContent note
United StatesPrivate Snafu: Operation Snafu, frame of a sword-carrying Japanese soldier caricatureContent note