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title: Oh, Yeah?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/oh-yeah-today-germany-is-ours-1941/
description: Poster of five open-mouthed German soldiers in helmets singing from sheet music, with a speech balloon quoting a German slogan in black-letter type
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricature of German soldiers with distorted, snarling faces singing a German slogan of world conquest. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Oh, Yeah?, 1941 US poster: Poster of five open-mouthed German soldiers in helmets singing from sheet music, with a speech](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/oh-yeah-today-germany-is-ours-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/oh-yeah-today-germany-is-ours-1941.jpg)

# Oh, Yeah?

Poster of five open-mouthed German soldiers in helmets singing from sheet music, with a speech balloon quoting a German slogan in black-letter type and in English translation, and the retort 'Oh, Yeah?'. Faces are drawn grim and distorted; the quoted threat of world conquest is a fear-appeal.

## 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

```
"Heute gehört uns Deutschland
Today, Germany is Ours;
Morgen die ganze Welt!"
Tomorrow, the Whole World
OH, YEAH?
[signature: MacLean]
[imprint: ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941]
```

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