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title: Germ Warfare (Jawi Malay poster distributed in Asia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/germ-warfare-jawi-malay-1952/
description: 'A photo-sheet under a Jawi headline, with eight photographs and four Jawi captions: three portraits of men in suits.'
section: Collection
---

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# Germ Warfare (Jawi Malay poster distributed in Asia)

A photo-sheet under a Jawi headline, with eight photographs and four Jawi captions: three portraits of men in suits, a medical ward beside a United Nations flag, men beside a jeep, a soldier inoculating a man, medics with a stretcher casualty and a worker spraying a hut. It answers the Communist germ-warfare charge over Korea. The tell is card-stacking: medical-care photographs are the selected evidence, and the UN flag lends standing.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Malay (Jawi script)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[headline, read approximately:] دستا کوميونيس تربوقتي

[Four Jawi captions beneath the photographs: [illegible]]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Headline, approximately: 'Communist lies proven' (Malay 'dusta komunis terbukti'). The four captions are not translated because they could not be read reliably.
```

Headline read approximately; the four caption blocks are not transcribed because the script is small and degraded at this resolution.

[← Germ Warfare: Ang mga Komunista Nadakpan sa Binutig (Communists Caught in a Lie) (Hiligaynon poster distributed in Asia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/germ-warfare-hiligaynon-1952/) [Center of Population →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-center-of-population-1952/)

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