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title: '''My Struggle!'' by Adolf Hitler, the sculptor (British poster in Arabic)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hitler-sculptor-swastika-arabic-1939/
description: Four photographs of dead civilians, among them children, are set inside the arms of a red swastika whose lower edge drips blood.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photographs of dead civilians, including children, arranged as a bleeding swastika. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!['My Struggle!' by Adolf Hitler, the sculptor (British poster in Arabic)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hitler-sculptor-swastika-arabic-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hitler-sculptor-swastika-arabic-1939.jpg)

# 'My Struggle!' by Adolf Hitler, the sculptor (British poster in Arabic)

Four photographs of dead civilians, among them children, are set inside the arms of a red swastika whose lower edge drips blood. The Arabic caption puts Hitler's book title in quotation marks and credits it to 'the sculptor Adolf Hitler': the Nazi symbol is made to carry the stigma of the victims shown inside it.

- **Date:** 1939
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** British government (printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Charles and Read Ltd, London) for audiences abroad
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [United Kingdom](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-kingdom)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Chamberlain Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=chamberlain-government)
- **Leader:** [Neville Chamberlain](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=neville-chamberlain)
- **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Imperial War Museums (scan via Wikimedia Commons)](https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/33158), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (UK Crown copyright expired; PD-UKGov per Wikimedia Commons) Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Charles and Read Ltd, London, c. 1939-1945. Imperial War Museums, Art.IWM PST 16148; scan via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

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

```
«كفاحي!»
بيد النقاش أدولف هتلر

[illegible: small imprint lines at the lower left and lower right]
```

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

```
"My Struggle!"
By the hand of the sculptor (engraver) Adolf Hitler
```

Two lines of large Arabic script at the foot of the poster. The small print at the lower edge is not legible in the committed image; the IWM catalogue transcribes it (see notes).

[← Varokaa! Vakoilija! (Beware! Spy!): Finnish Winter War poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finland-varokaa-vakoilijaa-1939/) [Keep Calm and Carry On →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-calm-and-carry-on-1939/)

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