Content note: Swastika-marked submarine and Axis leaders' names shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Our enemies' orders to their spies in the U.S.A.: Fight un-American propaganda
Silhouetted submarine with a swastika on the conning tower lands men and a box by rubber boat, under a white sheet in red script quoting 'Divide labor and management, turn class against class and spread religious hatred', signed A. Hitler, Hirohito, B. Mussolini. The tell is the attributed quotation: a text credited to the three leaders is presented as spy orders, paired with a landing scene, to raise alarm about division at home.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Think American Institute (Kelly-Read & Co.; artist Miller)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Security and surveillance, Labor
- 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)
Think American Institute. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1478 (NAID 515143).
Text on the object
Our enemies' orders to their spies in the U.S.A. "Divide labor and management, turn class against class and spread religious hatred" A. Hitler Hirohito B. Mussolini FIGHT un-American propaganda [imprint:] THINKAMERICAN REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. No. 157 - COPYRIGHT - KELLY-READ & CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y. THINKAMERICAN INSTITUTE [signature:] C X R MILLER
