This Is Greece, One of the United Nations
A sheet headed 'this is GREECE' with sections 'the people', 'their work' and 'the country', photographs of harvests, villages, ports and a war-damaged street in Kastoria, a statistics panel and a history text running from Ancient Greece to the Italian attack of 28 October 1940. The tell for glittering-generalities is the virtue language ('freedom-loving people over dictatorship', 'a great ideal for other men to follow'); card-stacking shows in a history that stresses Greek achievements and wartime role and omits unfavourable facts.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Greek Government Office of Information; artists F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Greece
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Greek Government in Exile
- Leader
- George II of Greece
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- Event
- World War II
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (foreign-government imprint lithographed in the US)
Greek Government Office of Information; F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-899h.
Text on the object
this is GREECE the people HARVEST IN MACEDONIA MONKS OF MOUNT ATHOS WOODCARVING GRAPE-PICKING IN THE VINEYARDS OF GREECE DESTRUCTION OF WAR IN KASTORIA, MACEDONIA their work Throughout 3000 years, Greece, a country small in size, has always struck such gallant blows for freedom and Democracy that, with her culture and her art, she has forever forged a great ideal for other men to follow. POPULATION: 7,500,000. Each figure represents 500,000 persons. [statistics not reproduced] the country SAILBOATS IN PORT A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN THE PELOPONNESE PORT OF SALONIKA ITHACA, THE HOME OF ULYSSES Greece is located at the southeastern tip of Europe. Her people have a history going back 3000 years. [...] Although Greece was occupied finally by Germany, Italy and Bulgaria and is suffering severely from starvation, she is still fighting on inside and outside the country for the cause of freedom. ACROPOLIS, VIEW OF THE PROPYLAEA f. c. veit and s. m. adler Lithographed in the United States of America ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS ISSUED BY GREEK GOVERNMENT OFFICE OF INFORMATION
