Content note: French-language poster calling the English 'barbare, égoïste, cruel'. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Pour qui? Pour l'Angleterre! (German anti-British posters, France)
Three copies of one French-language poster pasted side by side on a wall in occupied France, each showing a helmet on a grave cross above the question 'Pour qui? pour l'Angleterre!'. The small print calls the Englishman the butcher found wherever there are wounds and tears: 'barbare, égoïste, cruel'. The poster ties the dead soldier to Britain alone and attaches three insults to one nation.
- Date
- June 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- German propaganda services in occupied France (printer's credit on the poster not legible)
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Audience
- Enemy civilians
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-callingScapegoating
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L12579), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (German Federal Archives), as stated on the Commons file page
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L12579 / Bieling / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
POUR QUI ? pour L'ANGLETERRE ! Le voyageur autour du monde, voyant des traces sanglantes, n'a pas besoin de chercher le boucher, c'est toujours l'Anglais ! On le trouve sûrement là où il y a des blessures et des larmes: barbare, égoïste, cruel ! C'est l'Anglais ! [small printed credit line at the foot of each poster, illegible]
FOR WHOM? for ENGLAND! The traveller around the world, seeing bloody traces, has no need to look for the butcher, it is always the Englishman! He is surely found where there are wounds and tears: barbaric, selfish, cruel! It is the Englishman! [small printed credit line at the foot of each poster, illegible]
Read from an upscaled crop of an 800 px print; the body text is slightly soft but legible. A signature beside the helmet and the credit line at the foot are unreadable. The three posters carry identical text.
