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title: Every day you take off gives the Axis a break
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/every-day-you-take-off-gives-the-axis-a-break-1942/
description: A photograph shows a man in a vest reading a newspaper on a porch, feet up, with a radio beside him. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Caricature of Adolf Hitler in uniform with swastika armband giving a salute. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Every day you take off gives the Axis a break, 1942 US poster: A photograph shows a man in a vest reading a newspaper](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/every-day-you-take-off-gives-the-axis-a-break-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/every-day-you-take-off-gives-the-axis-a-break-1942.jpg)

# Every day you take off gives the Axis a break

A photograph shows a man in a vest reading a newspaper on a porch, feet up, with a radio beside him. Below, a small cartoon figure in uniform with a swastika armband, drawn as Hitler, salutes. The text reads 'Every day you take off gives the Axis a break'. The technique is guilt by association: absence from work is tied to enemy benefit through a caricature.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Every day you take off---

gives the Axis a break

[imprint: WAR PRODUCTION BOARD, WASHINGTON, D.C.; remaining small print illegible]
```

[← Enemy Ears Are Listening (OWI Poster No. 5)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/enemy-ears-are-listening-owi-5-1942/) [Every man, woman and child is a partner →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/every-man-woman-child-is-a-partner-1942/)

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