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title: '"Krvniki, čas obračuna prihaja!" (Executioners, the time of reckoning is coming!), Slovene Partisan leaflet'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krvniki-cas-obracuna-prihaja-partisan-leaflet-1944/
description: A pen-and-wash caricature of a wide-eyed, frowning man in a forage cap bearing a swastika, beside hand-lettered capitals reading 'Executioners, the time…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Hostile caricature of an enemy soldier in a swastika-marked cap, with a threat of retribution. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["Krvniki, čas obračuna prihaja!" (Executioners, the time of reckoning is coming!), Slovene Partisan leaflet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/krvniki-cas-obracuna-prihaja-partisan-leaflet-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/krvniki-cas-obracuna-prihaja-partisan-leaflet-1944.jpg)

# "Krvniki, čas obračuna prihaja!" (Executioners, the time of reckoning is coming!), Slovene Partisan leaflet

A pen-and-wash caricature of a wide-eyed, frowning man in a forage cap bearing a swastika, beside hand-lettered capitals reading 'Executioners, the time of reckoning is coming!'. The tells are the loaded label 'krvniki' (hangmen, executioners) for the whole group, the swastika on the cap as the stigma symbol, and a threat of retribution on a stated horizon with no date or terms.

## Text on the object

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

```
KRVNIKI
ČAS OBRAČUNA
PRIHAJA!

[signatures in the image at lower left and lower right: T.K.O. and Francé]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Executioners, the time of reckoning is coming!
```

Read from the committed image. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Japan's Life Line (leaflet 10-J-1, MacArthur and Nimitz cutting the supply lines)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japans-life-line-leaflet-1944/) [滿洲中央銀行百圓 (Central Bank of Manchukuo, 100 yuan note, 1944) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/manchukuo-central-bank-100-yuan-confucius-1944/)

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