Give Schicklegruber the hot-foot!
In a black-and-white cartoon a hand lights a match under the boot of a figure whose sleeve bears a swastika, the way a hot-foot prank is played, with the caption '4th of July War Bond purchases'. Using the mocking family name 'Schicklegruber' for the German leader is name-calling; the match stands for bond buying.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Unnamed issuer (cartoon signed Jed White, USNR)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance, Home front
- 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)
Unnamed issuer. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-883 (NAID 514388).
Text on the object
GIVE SCHICKLEGRUBER THE HOT-FOOT ! 4TH OF JULY WAR BOND PURCHASES [signature: Jed White USNR '44]
