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title: This Is Nazi Brutality
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-is-nazi-brutality-1943/
description: 'U.S. wartime poster: a faceless, hooded figure in a dark suit stands with both wrists in handcuffs against high brick walls, with the red headline ''This…'
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Poster quoting a Nazi announcement of the Lidice massacre; shows a hooded, handcuffed figure. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![This Is Nazi Brutality](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/this-is-nazi-brutality-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/this-is-nazi-brutality-1943.jpg)

# This Is Nazi Brutality

U.S. wartime poster: a faceless, hooded figure in a dark suit stands with both wrists in handcuffs against high brick walls, with the red headline 'This is Nazi brutality'. Across the figure, typewritten text strips quote a 'Radio Berlin' announcement dated 6/11/42 that all men of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, had been shot, the women deported to a concentration camp, the children sent to 'appropriate centers' and the village name abolished. The image stages the victims' helplessness and quotes the perpetrator's own broadcast as evidence (fear-appeal).

## Text on the object

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

```
This is Nazi brutality

RADIO BERLIN.--IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED:-

ALL MEN OF LIDICE - CZECHOSLOVAKIA - HAVE BEEN SHOT:

THE WOMEN DEPORTED TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP:

THE CHILDREN SENT TO APPROPRIATE CENTERS-- THE

NAME OF THE VILLAGE WAS IMMEDIATELY ABOLISHED.

6/11/42/115P
```

Red headline plus typewritten strips on the figure. The last strip '6/11/42/115P' reads as the date and time stamp (11 June 1942, 1:15 p.m.) of the quoted broadcast. A small credit line at the very bottom edge is not legible.

[← 'Daitōa kizuku chikara da, kono ippyō' (This one vote is the power that builds Greater East Asia) election poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-ballot-greater-east-asia-election-poster-1942/) [This Man Is Your Friend: Chinese. He Fights for Freedom →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-man-is-your-friend-chinese-1942/)

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