Content note: Cartoon caricature of a German officer with a swastika badge, shown being scalded by hot grease. This object is shown as it was published. Why
The grease you save... will burn the pants off Hermann!
Fat-salvage poster: a skillet pours a stream of grease onto a running cartoon German officer in a white uniform with a swastika badge, mouth open, in a white burst. The headline and the base text read as one sentence about 'Hermann'. The enemy is shown as a ridiculed figure; saved kitchen fat is tied to enemy casualties.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (fat salvage campaign; issuer not named); artist Archer
- 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
- Home front, War and the military
- 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-1233 (NAID 514839).
Text on the object
The GREASE you save... WILL BURN T[obscured by the grease stream] OFF HERMANN! [signature: ARCHER] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943--O--546993]
