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
- Date
- June 3, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Health
- Event
- Korean War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 3, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729962, 306-PPA-62).
Text on the object
[headline, read approximately:] دستا کوميونيس تربوقتي [Four Jawi captions beneath the photographs: [illegible]]
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.
