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title: Stamp 'em out! Beat your promise
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stamp-em-out-beat-your-promise-1941/
description: 'Color poster: a large boot descends on a coiled tangle of animals, a snake marked with swastikas, a snake marked with sun-ray discs and a toad with crossed'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Enemy depicted as snakes and a toad, one marked with swastikas, crushed by a boot. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Stamp 'em out! Beat your promise, 1941 US poster: Color poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/stamp-em-out-beat-your-promise-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/stamp-em-out-beat-your-promise-1941.jpg)

# Stamp 'em out! Beat your promise

Color poster: a large boot descends on a coiled tangle of animals, a snake marked with swastikas, a snake marked with sun-ray discs and a toad with crossed bandages on its belly, under the headline 'Stamp 'em out!' and the line 'Beat your promise'. The technique is name-calling by animal imagery: the enemy is drawn as vermin to be crushed, and 'You and I' makes the reader the boot.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[signature: illegible]
STAMP
'EM
OUT!
YOU
and I
BEAT YOUR PROMISE
[imprint: FORM IS 5348]
```

[← Squeeze-Play! Extra effort now brings victory nearer](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/squeeze-play-extra-effort-now-victory-builders-1941/) [Starve him with silence →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/starve-him-with-silence-seagram-1941/)

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