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
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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government (issuer not named; Form IS 5348); artist signature illegible
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
U.S. government. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1795 (NAID 515473).
Text on the object
[signature: illegible] STAMP 'EM OUT! YOU and I BEAT YOUR PROMISE [imprint: FORM IS 5348]
