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title: Hun - His Mark. Blot It Out with Liberty Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hun-his-mark-blot-it-out-with-liberty-bonds-1918/
description: A single blood-red handprint above the line 'The Hun - his Mark' and the instruction 'Blot it Out with Liberty Bonds.' The image carries no figure or fact
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** A bloody red handprint above the epithet 'The Hun - his Mark', as issued for the Liberty Loan. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Hun - His Mark. Blot It Out with Liberty Bonds, 1918 US poster: A single blood-red handprint above the line 'The Hun - his](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hun-his-mark-blot-it-out-with-liberty-bonds-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hun-his-mark-blot-it-out-with-liberty-bonds-1918.jpg)

# Hun - His Mark. Blot It Out with Liberty Bonds

A single blood-red handprint above the line 'The Hun - his Mark' and the instruction 'Blot it Out with Liberty Bonds.' The image carries no figure or fact: the epithet 'Hun' and the bloody hand imply atrocity, and the purchase of a bond is offered as the act that erases it.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
The Hun - his Mark
Blot it Out
with
LIBERTY
BONDS

[artist's signature, lower left: J. Allen St. John]
[tiny imprint line, lower right: illegible]
```

The lower-left signature reads, apparently, 'J. Allen St. John'; the tiny imprint line at lower right is [illegible].

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