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title: I can't help but feel that if Hitler and *** had made that trip with us through those plants
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heel-hitler-philco-1942/
description: 'Sponsor cartoon sheet: caricatured Hitler, a Japanese officer and a third Axis figure recoil from a large hand, marked with a star on the cuff.'
section: Collection
---

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3. I can't help but feel that if Hitler and *** had made that trip

**Content note:** Cartoon shows Hitler, a Japanese officer and another Axis figure as grotesque caricatures, with a knife and a quoted line about cutting throats. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![I can't help but feel that if Hitler and *** had made that trip with us through those plants, 1942 US advertisement: Sponsor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/heel-hitler-philco-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/heel-hitler-philco-1942.jpg)

# I can't help but feel that if Hitler and *** had made that trip with us through those plants

Sponsor cartoon sheet: caricatured Hitler, a Japanese officer and a third Axis figure recoil from a large hand, marked with a star on the cuff, holding a knife labelled 'Made in U.S.A.' over a shipyard and a sky of aircraft. A boxed quote from British minister Oliver Lyttelton is the testimonial; the Axis leaders are drawn as grotesque caricatures.

## Propaganda techniques used in this advertisement

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
"I can't help but feel that if Hitler and ***
had made that trip with us through those
plants, they would *** cut their throats ***"
-Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production,
after his recent tour of America's War Plants.
[smoke lettering:] Tanks Guns Men
[on knife:] MADE IN U.S.A.
[imprint:] DRAWN FOR PHILCO CARL ROSE
[imprint:] Copyright 1942-Philco Corporation
```

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