--- title: Semantic hijacking propaganda in the collection url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/technique/semantic-hijack/ description: Browse all 27 items from objects tagged semantic hijacking in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source. section: Collection --- ![Illustration: a dossier collage of an evidence wall of pinned propaganda posters, leaflets and printed matter from many eras, with contact sheets and catalog labels.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/hero-collection.jpg) Technique # Semantic hijacking propaganda in the collection 27 objects, listed by date. 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Technique: Semantic hijacking [The whole collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) · [Search](https://propagandaarchive.org/search/) - [Punch, 'The Jamaica Question' (Tenniel), 23 December 1865](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/punch-jamaica-question-1865/) (United Kingdom · Dec 23, 1865 · Name-calling, Semantic hijacking). Content note: Full-page period caricature of a Black Jamaican man, a white planter and a clergyman, made in the context of the 1865 Morant Bay killings. - [Re-construction, or 'a white man's government'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/reconstruction-white-mans-government-currier-ives-1868/) (United States · 1868 · Semantic hijacking). Content note: 1868 pro-Grant print with a racial slur and dialect in its printed speech. - [True democracy is safe! (Puck)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-true-democracy-is-safe-palmer-1896/) (United States · Sep 30, 1896 · Semantic hijacking) - [Mr. John Dillon, M.P., on recruiting in Ireland. Join an Irish regiment to-day](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/john-dillon-on-recruiting-in-ireland-1915/) (United Kingdom · 1915 · Testimonial, Semantic hijacking) - [Auch die Geduld hat ein Ende (Even Patience Has an End), German-language leaflet for German soldiers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allied-leaflet-auch-die-geduld-hat-ein-ende-1918/) (Transnational · 1918 · Scapegoating, Semantic hijacking) - [Die Wacht am Rhein (The Watch on the Rhine)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/die-wacht-am-rhein-the-watch-on-the-rhine-1918/) (United States · 1918 · Semantic hijacking, Transfer) - [Battle for Fuel: Use Less Coal & Coke](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/battle-for-fuel-use-less-coal-coke-uk-1939/) (United Kingdom · 1939 · Semantic hijacking) - [The Battle for Fuel: Use less water](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-battle-for-fuel-use-less-water-1939/) (United Kingdom · 1939 · Semantic hijacking) - [Anything less than your best is DESERTING - It's now or never on the production line](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-anything-less-than-your-best-is-deserting-1940/) (Canada · 1940 · Semantic hijacking) - ['Zeitaku wa teki da!' (Luxury Is the Enemy!) street sign, Tokyo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/luxury-is-the-enemy-sign-1940/) (Empire of Japan · Aug 1, 1940 · Semantic hijacking, Identity fusion) - [Männer und Frauen der Untersteiermark! (leaflet for enrolment in the Styrian Homeland League)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/maenner-und-frauen-der-untersteiermark-1941/) (Nazi Germany · 1941 · Semantic hijacking, Scapegoating, Name-calling). Content note: Occupation proclamation with threats against 'elements hostile to the people' - [V = Duitschland wint voor Europa op alle fronten (V = Germany wins for Europe on all fronts)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/v-duitschland-wint-voor-europa-1941/) (Nazi Germany · 1941 · Semantic hijacking) - [V = Zwycięstwo Niemiec na wszystkich frontach (V = Victory of Germany on all fronts)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/v-zwyciestwo-niemiec-polish-v-poster-1941/) (General Government · Jul 1941 · Card stacking, Semantic hijacking) - [The Man Who Would Not Close the Doors - Don't Be Fuel-ish](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-man-who-would-not-close-the-doors-fuel-ish-1942/) (United Kingdom · 1942 · Fear appeal, Semantic hijacking) - [You are in the Battle for Fuel: Are you keeping inside your Target?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-you-are-in-the-battle-for-fuel-target-1942/) (United Kingdom · 1942 · Semantic hijacking) - [Tu défends la Belgique... en luttant au front de l'Est (You defend Belgium... by fighting on the Eastern Front)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tu-defends-la-belgique-ss-wallonie-1943/) (Nazi Germany · 1943 · Semantic hijacking, Transfer). Content note: Waffen-SS recruiting poster with armed soldiers and the SS name - [You Can Make This Kind of Ammunition!!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-make-this-kind-of-ammunition-1943/) (United States · 1943 · Transfer, Semantic hijacking). Content note: A pencil cartoon of falling vegetables aimed at a three-dimensional swastika lying on the ground, as published by the Office of War Information. - [For you after the war](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/for-you-after-the-war-spending-power-1944/) (United States · 1944 · Semantic hijacking) - [Azad Hind, English edition, page 2 (Syonan/Singapore, August 8, 1945)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/azad-hind-english-page-2-1945-08-08/) (Provisional Government of Free India · Aug 8, 1945 · Card stacking, Semantic hijacking) - [Σοσιαλδημοκρατία: Μερικοί που ζητούν την ψήφο σου σ' εκυβέρνησαν (Social democracy: some who ask for your vote have ruled you)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sosialdimokratia-election-poster-1946/) (Kingdom of Greece · 1946 · Semantic hijacking, Scapegoating). Content note: Drawn scenes of shootings, bodies, explosions and starving people, as printed. - [I thought I had an appointment](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-thought-i-had-an-appointment-1955/) (United States · Nov 1, 1955 · Card stacking, Semantic hijacking) - [Crowd at the Arkansas State Capitol protesting school integration, with signs reading "Race mixing is Communism," Little Rock, Arkansas](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/race-mixing-is-communism-1959/) (United States · Aug 20, 1959 · Semantic hijacking, Transfer) - [The Common Struggle: Asian Military Forces Assist South Vietnamese Troops](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/common-struggle-asian-forces-assist-south-vietnamese-1965-1969/) (United States · 1965 · Card stacking, Semantic hijacking) - [FTA, Freak the Army: GI-civilian solidarity concert and rally](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fta-freak-the-army-concert-rally-dane-levy-yarrow-1969/) (United States · 1969 · Semantic hijacking, Testimonial) - [Tell it to Hanoi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/yaf-tell-it-to-hanoi-1969/) (United States · 1969 · Semantic hijacking, Name-calling) - ["Frontul Democrației și Unității Socialiste - cel mai larg organism politic": Romanian wall chart](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/romanian-front-of-democracy-and-socialist-unity-1985/) (Romania · 1985 · Semantic hijacking, Glittering generalities) - [Address announcing a 'special military operation'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/special-military-operation-address-2022/) (Russia · Feb 24, 2022 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Semantic hijacking)