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title: If these Nazi war workers dared speak, they'd say- "Americans, protect your system of individual freedom-Dictatorship means slavery-not security."
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-these-nazi-war-workers-dared-speak-1941/
description: 'Sheet no. 168 in a ThinkAmerican series: a photograph captioned as taken secretly shows workers filling shell casings in a Nazi war plant.'
section: Collection
---

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# If these Nazi war workers dared speak, they'd say- "Americans, protect your system of individual freedom-Dictatorship means slavery-not security."

Sheet no. 168 in a ThinkAmerican series: a photograph captioned as taken secretly shows workers filling shell casings in a Nazi war plant, above a message put in the workers' mouths. The imagined speech is a testimonial the pictured people did not give; 'individual freedom' and 'slavery' are broad value words with no specifics.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
THIS PHOTO, TAKEN SECRETLY, SHOWS WORKERS IN A NAZI WAR PLANT
INTERPHOTO
If these Nazi war
workers dared speak,
they'd say-"Americans,
protect your system of
individual freedom-
Dictatorship means
slavery-not security."
THINKAMERICAN INSTITUTE
THINKAMERICAN
REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.
No. 168-COPYRIGHT,-KELLY-READ & CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y.
603
```

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