Technique
Scapegoating propaganda in the collection
162 objects, listed by date.
Illustration, not an archive object
Holy Roman EmpireDer Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)
Dutch RepublicOndersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)
FranceProclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)Content note
United States"Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser" (pro-Jackson print, 1832)
British IndiaProclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India (printed sheet, Allahabad, 1 November 1858)
United StatesUnion and liberty! And union and slavery!
United StatesThe Great November Contest. Patriotism versus BummerismContent note
United StatesYou must make your choice. Birds of a feather flock together
United StatesWhere Both Platforms Agree: No Vote, No Use to Either Party (Puck cover, 14 July 1880)Content note
United StatesGarfield's Death Warrant: 'Advertiser Extra' reproducing the Morey letter (1880)Content note
BelgiumDe Vlamingen aan de Negers van den Congo (The Flemings to the Negroes of the Congo)
United KingdomThe Radical Programme, No. 4: Dismemberment of the Empire (Gladstone & Co. auction India), St Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon
Empire of JapanKanpō (Official Gazette), extra no. 3328, p. 8 (Tokyo, 2 August 1894): 宣戦ノ詔勅 (Imperial Rescript declaring war on China)Content note
United States"'War is Hell.' Sherman, [but] Peace in Cuba under Spanish Rule Is Worse than Hell" (Judge, 30 April 1898)Content note
German Empire"England and the War in South Africa" (Der wahre Jacob, 1899)
United States"Negro Rule" vampire cartoon with sworn affidavitContent note
Russian EmpireЯпонский Император и его лукавые доброжелатели (The Japanese Emperor and His Cunning Well-Wishers): Russian Russo-Japanese War print
United States"The War with Japan" (Puck cover, 23 October 1907)
United StatesThe Menace front page, 12 April 1913 (Aurora, Missouri)Content note
United StatesRegeneración, weekly, front page (Los Angeles, 16 August 1913)Content note
Austria HungarySlovenec, Nr. 168, front page (Ljubljana, 27 July 1914): "Avstrija se je našla" and "Živela Avstrija! Doli s Srbijo!"Content note
United KingdomRemember Belgium — Enlist To-Day
AustraliaThe Labor Call (Melbourne), 'The Same Old Enemies', page 6, 14 September 1916Content note
United StatesDestroy This Mad Brute — EnlistContent note
German EmpireDas ist der Weg zum Frieden, die Feinde wollen es so! Darum zeichne Kriegsanleihe! (That Is the Way to Peace, the Enemies Want It So! Therefore Subscribe to the War Loan!)
TransnationalAuch die Geduld hat ein Ende (Even Patience Has an End), German-language leaflet for German soldiers
Austria HungarySoldati italiani! (Austro-Hungarian leaflet on Trieste and Trento)
FinlandSosialistijohdon pimitystyö (The obscurantism of the socialist leadership): anonymous anti-socialist broadsheet, 1918Content note
NetherlandsStemt Rood! Kiest de kandidaten der Soc. Dem. Arb. Partij (Vote Red! Choose the candidates of the Social Democratic Workers' Party), poster by Albert Hahn
NetherlandsDe Telegraaf, No. 10.295, morning edition, front page (Amsterdam, 14 November 1918): "De Troelstra-revolutie 'Made in Germany'"Content note
Soviet RussiaКапитал (Capital)
Russia White MovementМиръ и свобода въ Совдепіи (Peace and Freedom in Sovdepia)Content note
Weimar GermanySpartakus bei der Arbeit (Spartacus at Work)Content note
Russia White MovementVechernee Vremya, no. 304, front page (Rostov-on-Don, 4 July 1919): 'Belgorod'Content note
Soviet RussiaМы воюем с панским родом, а не с польским трудовым народом! (We Are Fighting the Lordly Breed, Not the Polish Working People!)Content note
Weimar GermanyVölkischer Beobachter, Nr. 20, front page (Munich, 10 March 1920): "Macht ganze Arbeit mit den Juden!" (Make a clean job of the Jews!)Content note
United StatesThe Imperial Night-Hawk, 29 August 1923, page 2: 'Poorly Restricted Immigration is One of The Greatest Perils Confronting America'Content note
Korea Under Japanese Rule每日申報 Maeil Sinbo, daily, article, p. 3 (Seoul, 10 September 1923): "不良朝鮮人의暴動은如斯"Content note
Weimar GermanyDie neuen Steuern: Restlose Ausplünderung des Proletariats! (The New Taxes: Total Plundering of the Proletariat!)
Fascist Italy1919 Bolscevismo / 1923 Fascismo: PNF election poster as reproduced in L'Illustration, April 1924Content note
Mandatory PalestineFalastin / La Palestine: special English edition for Lord Balfour's visit, 'J'accuse!' (Jaffa, 25 March 1925)Content note
Soviet UnionКрепи революционный фронт защиты СССР (Strengthen the Revolutionary Front for the Defence of the USSR)Content note
Weimar RepublicZerschmettert den Weltfeind. Wählt Nationalsozialistisch! (Streiter-Verlag election poster)Content note
Soviet UnionEnemies of the Five-Year Plan (Vragi pyatiletki)Content note
Soviet UnionStalin's Pipe (Trubka Stalina)Content note
Soviet UnionIn Our Kolkhoz There Is No Place for Priests and Kulaks (V nashem kolkhoze net mesta popam i kulakam)Content note
ChinaChinese poster on the Korean-Chinese riots of July 1931 (倭嗾鮮人殺我同胞)Content note
Nazi Germany'Deutsche! Wehrt Euch! Kauft nicht bei Juden!' (Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!): SA and SS men post a boycott sign, BerlinContent note
Nazi GermanyDer Stürmer, Nr. 30, July 1933: Der tote JudeContent note
Nazi GermanyMit dem Stürmer gegen Juda (Der Stürmer display case, Worms)Content note
Mandatory PalestinePalestine Entangled by World Jewry (Falastin newspaper cartoon)Content note
SpainLos Nacionales, Ministerio de Propaganda poster (Republican Spain, 1937)Content note
Nazi GermanyAusstellung »Der ewige Jude«: Eingang mit Besuchern (Munich)Content note
Nazi GermanyGroße Politische Schau »Der ewige Jude« (facade, Deutsches Museum Library, Munich)Content note
Nazi GermanyEntartete Kunst: Ausstellung der NSDAP im Haus der Kunst am Königsplatz (poster)Content note
Nazi GermanyAusstellung »Der ewige Jude«: Schautafel »Jüdische Drückebergerei und Betriebsamkeit im Weltkrieg«Content note
Soviet UnionSuomen armeijan sotilaat! (Soldiers of the Finnish Army!): Soviet leaflet signed by named Finnish prisoners
Nazi GermanyDie Geissel Gottes: Polnische Juden (Der Stürmer, October 1939)Content note
FinlandОни так веселы потому что вырвались к счастливой жизни (They Are So Cheerful Because They Broke Free to a Happy Life): Finnish leaflet for Red Army soldiers
Slovak RepublicNebuď služobníkom žida (Do Not Be the Jew's Servant), Slovak StateContent note
Nazi GermanyPourquoi mourir pour l'Angleterre? (German propaganda banners, western front)Content note
Nazi GermanyPour qui? Pour l'Angleterre! (German anti-British posters, France)Content note
United StatesDo you know him? He's the 'On-Today-Off-Tomorrow' man
United StatesDon't save his face! Every blow counts in the battle for productionContent note
Nazi GermanyEngelsche hongerblokkade (English hunger blockade)
United StatesFor the Conquered - Steel! Not BreadContent note
United StatesGo Ahead, Please - Take Day Off!Content note
United StatesHa! Ha! Ha! Materials wasted... means lives wasted!Content note
United StatesIf you must squawk, blame them - and watch out for me!Content note
Vichy FranceIls assassinent ! Enveloppés dans les plis de notre drapeau (They murder! Wrapped in the folds of our flag)
United StatesKeep These Hands Off! Buy the New Victory BondsContent note
Nazi GermanyMänner und Frauen der Untersteiermark! (leaflet for enrolment in the Styrian Homeland League)Content note
Soviet UnionSuomalaiset sotavangit sotilastovereilleen (Finnish prisoners of war to their fellow soldiers): Soviet leaflet with seven named prisoners
Soviet UnionSuomalaiset sotilaat! (Finnish soldiers!): Soviet leaflet on a 'fratricidal war' and German masters
Soviet UnionSuomen mies! (Man of Finland!): Soviet leaflet with a Hitler-armband arm pushing a soldier past death notices
NetherlandsVolk en Vaderland, front page (21 February 1941): "Joden - misdaad. Weerman Koot vermoord"Content note
Romania"Publicațiune": Pașcani mayor's notice on a Jewish curfew and hostage executions, 4 July 1941Content note
Nazi GermanyDer Untermensch (SS Main Office brochure, cover)Content note
United StatesEvery day you take off gives the Axis a breakContent note
United StatesFor carelessness, I gif nice medalContent note
United StatesHe's Watching You
Empire of JapanJapanese leaflet in English, "Australia Screams" (Pacific, c. 1942)Content note
Slovak RepublicKam to dotiahnu? (Where will they get to?), Ľudové novinyContent note
United StatesKeep Punchin'!Content note
United StatesPut on the SqueezeContent note
United StatesRussian War Posters (magazine page reproducing Soviet posters)
Soviet UnionSuomalainen sotilas! (Finnish Soldier!): Soviet safe-conduct leaflet, Continuation War
United StatesWanted! For Murder — Her Careless Talk Costs Lives
Independent State of CroatiaŽidovi: izložba o razvoju židovstva (Jews: Exhibition on the Development of Jewry), ZagrebContent note
Nazi GermanyLe judaïsme tend à l'hégémonie mondiale (panel, Le Bolchevisme contre l'Europe exhibition, Paris)Content note
United StatesAll the Ear-Marks of a Sneaky Jap!Content note
United StatesEasy to Get... Syphilis and GonorrheaContent note
United StatesJoe Dope thinks it funny to play Lovely Lola, The Charmer this wayContent note
United StatesOur carelessness, their secret weapon: prevent forest firesContent note
United StatesOut! Don't listen to his song and dance. Give the goof a kick in the pants!Content note
United StatesShe May Look Clean—But
United StatesThis Is the EnemyContent note
United States"Absence makes their hearts grow fonder"Content note
United States"Turn the Spotlight on the Traitor!!"Content note
United StatesHome Front Fires Are Enemy Victories: Prevent FiresContent note
Kingdom of HungaryWall inscription '1 keresztényér[t]! 100 zsidó' (1 Christian [for] 100 Jews), HungaryContent note
Empire of Japan'Hey! You diggers! He came, he saw, he conquered!' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)Content note
General GovernmentBekanntmachung, Warsaw, 2 February 1944: 100 condemned prisoners shot in publicContent note
Empire of Japan'The Spectre Commands' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)
United StatesDon't feed black market greed
Kingdom of GreeceΣοσιαλδημοκρατία: Μερικοί που ζητούν την ψήφο σου σ' εκυβέρνησαν (Social democracy: some who ask for your vote have ruled you)Content note
NetherlandsIndie en Nederland is EEN. Weg met Soekarno (The Indies and the Netherlands Are ONE. Down with Sukarno), slogans chalked on a troop lorry
Democratic Republic of VietnamÀ qui le crime profite-t-il? (Viet Minh leaflet on the back of a French Indochina one-piastre note, 1948)
East GermanyChildren examine collected Colorado beetles during the "American beetle" campaign, Chemnitz districtContent note
China"Mr. Moneybags is in Florida this Christmas" leaflet, Korean War
North KoreaSome People Wonder! (Believe it or not, these are POW's!)
United StatesIs there any need to choose death for the Soviet Union and Communist China?
United StatesWhere have your officers fled to?
United StatesComrades of the People's Army! Do you know why you are posted on the east front?
United StatesBetween the Hammer and the Sickle poster, PO-17-VN (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
United States공산당도배들이 한국에 들어오기전에는... (Before the Communists Came to Korea...), leaflet 1321Content note
United StatesSelling Country and People poster, PO-107-C (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)
United StatesSelling Country and People poster, PO-107-C (Chinese poster distributed in Singapore)
United States建設馬來亞 / 破壞馬來亞 (Building Malaya / Destroying Malaya)
United States你們遠離家鄉 不能骨肉團圓 都是共產党害的 (You Are Far from Home and Cannot Be Reunited with Your Kin: the Communists Did It), leaflet 8724
United States共產黨未來之前 / 共產黨來了之後 (Before the Communist Party Came / After the Communist Party Came), U.S. turn-it-over face card
HungaryMay Day parade satire: dollar-throne figure and 'US'-helmeted puppets, BudapestContent note
United StatesResult of 8 Years of Struggle poster (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
HungarySovetskie soldaty! Russian-language appeal to Soviet troops, Budapest 1956
United StatesMonopolizing the Water HoleContent note
East GermanyAdenauer and Krupp cartoon boards, open-air display, Rathausstrasse, East BerlinContent note
East Germany"Grenzgänger zu bedienen ist unter unserer Würde": shop poster, Königs Wusterhausen district
East Germany"Laßt uns gemeinsam für Frieden und Verständigung wirken!": GDR peace-treaty billboard at the Friedrichstraße crossing (CIA photograph)
East Germany"Der deutsche Friedensvertrag bändigt den westdeutschen Militarismus!": sign at the Friedrichstraße checkpoint, Berlin
East Germany"Aktuelle Kamera" interview with a detained West Berliner, Deutscher Fernsehfunk
United StatesTại sao Mao Chủ tịch lại cười (Why Is Chairman Mao Laughing), Sacred Sword of the Patriots League leafletContent note
United StatesCompatriots, Ask Yourselves poster 407 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
United StatesAgression du Nord (Aggression of the North)
United StatesCommunists Murder Village Farmers to Obtain Support by IntimidationContent note
United StatesInternational Cooperation for Health
United StatesPartners in CrimeContent note
United StatesPeople Protest (Dân chúng phản đối!)Content note
United StatesPhu Cat Hamlets Rebuilt
United StatesRevolutionary Development Workers Help the People of Phuoc Long in Building a New Life
United StatesRural Construction at Vinh Long
United StatesWho Is the Friend of the People of Hau Nghia Province?Content note
United StatesAggression from the North poster 408 (Spanish poster distributed in Mexico City)
United StatesGVN Make Efforts To Improve People's Life, VC Continue to Destroy and Kill (Ai bạn? Ai thù?)Content note
United StatesThe People Condemn VC CrimesContent note
United StatesWho Builds? And Who Destroys?
United StatesThe Massacre of Long My (Cuộc tàn sát đẫm máu tại Long-Mỹ)Content note
AustraliaHồi Chánh viên Nguyễn Văn Rõ (Returnee Nguyen Van Ro), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-012-70
AustraliaBây giờ chúng ta đi về đâu? (Where Do We Go Now?), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-054-70
AustraliaCùng các đội-viên du-kích và chi-bộ xã Bình-Ba (To the Binh Ba Guerrillas and Party Chapter), leaflet
IranFBIS Daily Report: Tehran Domestic Service on the occupation of the U.S. Embassy (5 Nov 1979)Content note
CubaHavana Domestic Service, Castro's May Day speech on the Peruvian embassy exodus ('lumpens', 'scum'), broadcast (Havana, May 1, 1980)Content note
AfghanistanFBIS Daily Report: Kabul Domestic Service reads an Afghan trade-union message blaming 'world-devouring imperialism led by U.S. imperialism'Content note
North KoreaFBIS Daily Report: Nodong Sinmun commentary 'Tears of the Instigator' on the 1976 Panmunjom axe incidentContent note
North KoreaFBIS Daily Report: Pyongyang commentary calls the 1983 Rangoon bombing a 'drama self-made by the puppets'Content note
East GermanyEast Berlin radio and television on the October 1989 demonstrations ('Black Channel'), FBIS Daily Report, 11 October 1989Content note
RomaniaBucharest Domestic Service: Ceausescu's address on the Timisoara events, FBIS Daily Report, 21 December 1989Content note
South AfricaANC Western Cape Poster: "DP + NNP Stole Your Homes" (c. 2001)
United StatesCoalition leaflet "As your family struggles to survive, he lives in splendor" (IZ D050, Iraq 2003)
United StatesCoalition leaflet "The enemies of Afghanistan can no longer bring villages under their control" (Afghanistan, c. 2006-2007)
Iran'U.S. the agent of global Zionism, the creator of ISIS' khamenei.ir poster (Tehran, 17 October 2017)
Iran'The trace of the Zionists in the Incident of Nine-eleven' khamenei.ir poster
TransnationalAI-generated image from the Springfield pet-eating claimContent note