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title: 'Jugoslavia: Freedom on the Heights (Punch, 21 January 1942)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-jugoslavia-freedom-on-the-heights-punch-1942/
description: A black-and-white Punch cartoon shows five armed Yugoslav guerrillas on a snowy ridge, one scanning with binoculars.
section: Collection
---

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[![Jugoslavia: Freedom on the Heights, 1942 UK cartoon: A black-and-white Punch cartoon shows five armed Yugoslav guerrillas](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-jugoslavia-freedom-on-the-heights-punch-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-jugoslavia-freedom-on-the-heights-punch-1942.jpg)

# Jugoslavia: Freedom on the Heights (Punch, 21 January 1942)

A black-and-white Punch cartoon shows five armed Yugoslav guerrillas on a snowy ridge, one scanning with binoculars, above a valley with German-held vehicles; the sheet is headed 'Jugoslavia'. The tell for glittering generalities is the abstract title 'Freedom on the Heights' and the bracketed admiration for the guerrilla army in place of operational detail.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
JUGOSLAVIA
PUNCH OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI — JANUARY 21 1942

FREEDOM ON THE HEIGHTS
[In admiration of the mountain guerilla army still fighting against Germany and Italy on Yugo-Slav soil.]

ILLINGWORTH [signature]
```

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