Content note: Shows a woodcut of German soldiers with swastika armbands drawn as brutish figures, burning villages, a mass hanging and corpses, as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Jugoslav Guerillas: The Second Front in Europe
A woodcut by Leopoldo Méndez shows a giant guerrilla swinging a scythe over crouching German soldiers with swastika armbands, a burning village and church, and a row of hanged men, with red script 'Jugoslav Guerillas / The second front in Europe'. The tells are the bestial drawing of the soldiers (name-calling) and the slogan claiming a second front without evidence on the sheet (card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Not stated on the sheet; artist Leopoldo Méndez (signed); no imprint or issuer visible
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; issuer unknown; hosted by owner decision
Issuer not stated; artist Leopoldo Méndez. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-895.
Text on the object
Jugoslav Guerillas The second front in Europe Leopoldo Méndez [signature]
