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
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).
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government campaign
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Text on the object
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.
