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
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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- OCASC Intelligence Section (as printed: Production of OCASC, Intelligence Section)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Security and surveillance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
OCASC Intelligence Section. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1059 (NAID 514583).
Text on the object
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]
