Content note: Illustration of a uniformed soldier with a swastika armband over prisoners hauling a cannon, with skulls on the ground. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Free Labor must destroy Axis slavery!
A figure in eighteenth-century dress, in the pose associated with George Washington, looks at a vision in the clouds: a helmeted soldier with a swastika armband and a gun over men hauling a cannon, with skulls on the ground. The tell is the founding figure lending authority to the slogan, and the vision as the fear-appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc., New York; artist Packer
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military
- 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)
Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-836 (NAID 514330).
Text on the object
"Free Labor must destroy Axis Slavery!" [signature:] PACKER PRINTED IN U.S.A. Copyright, "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK
