--- title: September 15, 1940 - The Day Hitler's Dreams Were Smashed url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/september-15-1940-day-hitlers-dreams-were-smashed-uk-1940/ description: A tall pictogram sheet titled 'Facts and figures about the Battle of Britain' shows 250 German planes attacking in the morning and 250 more section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. September 15, 1940 - The Day Hitler's Dreams Were Smashed [![September 15, 1940 - The Day Hitler's Dreams Were Smashed, 1940 UK poster: A tall pictogram sheet titled 'Facts and figures](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/september-15-1940-day-hitlers-dreams-were-smashed-uk-1940.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/september-15-1940-day-hitlers-dreams-were-smashed-uk-1940.jpg) # September 15, 1940 - The Day Hitler's Dreams Were Smashed A tall pictogram sheet titled 'Facts and figures about the Battle of Britain' shows 250 German planes attacking in the morning and 250 more in the afternoon, then 185 German losses against 25 British fighters lost and 14 pilots saved. The tell is card-stacking: one day's claimed losses stand for the whole battle, the sheet gives no source for the counts, and the headline frames it as the day 'Hitler's dreams were smashed'. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` September 15, 1940 The day Hitler's dreams were smashed Facts and figures about the Battle of Britain THE MORNING AT 11.30 a.m. 250 GERMAN PLANES ATTACKED IN TWO WAVES BY 12.30 p.m. 88 WERE DESTROYED THE AFTERNOON AT 2.30 p.m. 250 MORE GERMAN PLANES ATTACKED IN TWO WAVES BY 7 p.m. 97 MORE WERE DESTROYED German losses - 185 planes in 5 1/2 hrs. British losses - 25 fighters 14 PILOTS WERE SAVED G.P.G./AM./9. PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY CHROMOWORKS LTD., LONDON 51-2968. ``` [← Schonen Sie Ihren Organismus (Spare Your Organism)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/schonen-sie-ihren-organismus-1940/) [Taxying - The Necessity for Good Look-Out →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taxying-necessity-for-good-look-out-1940/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.