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title: Keep These Hands Off! Buy the New Victory Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-these-hands-off-victory-bonds-1941/
description: 'Bond-sale poster: a young woman holds an infant while two dark clawed hands reach in from the edges of the frame.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Shows clawed hands marked with a swastika and the Japanese rising-sun flag reaching toward a mother and infant. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Keep These Hands Off! Buy the New Victory Bonds, 1941 US poster: Bond-sale poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-these-hands-off-victory-bonds-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-these-hands-off-victory-bonds-1941.jpg)

# Keep These Hands Off! Buy the New Victory Bonds

Bond-sale poster: a young woman holds an infant while two dark clawed hands reach in from the edges of the frame, one marked with a swastika and the other with the rising-sun rays of the Japanese flag. Mother and child stand for the home, the clawed hands for the Axis powers, and the closing line asks viewers to buy bonds as the response.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/)

## Text on the object

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

```
KEEP
THESE
HANDS
OFF!

BUY the new VICTORY BONDS

[signature: G. K. Odell (reading uncertain)]
```

[← Keep 'em Smiling with Letters from Folks and Friends](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-em-smiling-with-letters-vfw-auxiliary-1941/) [Keep working to keep him winning →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-working-to-keep-him-winning-1941/)

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