Schonen Sie Ihren Organismus (Spare Your Organism)
A man in profile smokes a cigarette; a red arrow labelled with mucous membranes, throat and nose runs down his neck to bronchi, two lungs, a heart and a stomach, and the slogan says 'Spare your organism'. Fear-appeal tell: an anatomical diagram stages harm to each organ, with no figures, source or named issuer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- German anti-tobacco campaign poster (issuer not named on the poster; concept of Fritz Lickint)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Health
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wellcome Collection (London), work b16425273, reference 642527i, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 as stated by Wellcome Collection (c. 1940 work; publisher unnamed)
Wellcome Collection
Text on the object
Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked
Schonen Sie Ihren Organismus SCHLEIMHÄUTE RACHEN-NASE BRONCHIEN LUNGE HERZ LUNGE MAGEN
Spare your organism. Mucous membranes. Throat and nose. Bronchi. Lung. Heart. Lung. Stomach.
Labels are printed along the red smoke-path arrow and on the organs; read from the committed image.
