Content note: Photographs of dead civilians, including children, arranged as a bleeding swastika. This object is shown as it was published. Why
'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
- Made by
- British government (printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Charles and Read Ltd, London) for audiences abroad
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Chamberlain Government
- Leader
- Neville Chamberlain
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Imperial War Museums (scan via Wikimedia Commons), 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
«كفاحي!» بيد النقاش أدولف هتلر [illegible: small imprint lines at the lower left and lower right]
"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).
