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title: If they would like it... Report it!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-they-would-like-it-report-it-1941/
description: 'Anti-sabotage poster: two grotesque heads, one in a German-style officer''s cap with swastika insignia and one in a red cap with fangs and whiskers.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricatured grotesque enemy faces, including one with fangs, and swastika insignia, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![If they would like it... Report it!, 1941 US poster: Anti-sabotage poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/if-they-would-like-it-report-it-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/if-they-would-like-it-report-it-1941.jpg)

# If they would like it... Report it!

Anti-sabotage poster: two grotesque heads, one in a German-style officer's cap with swastika insignia and one in a red cap with fangs and whiskers, loom over a burning factory marked SABOTAGE. Workers' silhouettes appear below. Fear-appeal (fire, enemy faces) and name-calling by caricature; the banner gives a phone number and an Intelligence Officer.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
IF YOU QUESTION IT-REPORT IT!
COME, CALL 242 or WRITE - INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.
SABOTAGE
IF THEY
WOULD
LIKE IT...
REPORT IT!
PRODUCTION OF OCASC
-INTELLIGENCE SECTION-
[signature/mark: illegible]
```

[← If these Nazi war workers dared speak, they'd say- "Americans, protect your system of individual freedom-Dictatorship means slavery-not security."](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-these-nazi-war-workers-dared-speak-1941/) [If we produce enough of these we won't need these →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-we-produce-enough-of-these-douglas-1941/)

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