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title: Germany and Japan Behind Bars (Spanish-language Allied flags poster, no printed title)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-germany-and-japan-behind-bars-ontiveros-1942/
description: 'Dozens of Allied national flags on tall poles form a cage, and behind its bars two caricatured figures cringe: one with a toothbrush moustache and swastika'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** US wartime poster with a racial caricature of a Japanese figure beside a caricature of Hitler, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Germany and Japan Behind Bars, 1942 US poster: Dozens of Allied national flags on tall poles form a cage, and behind its bars](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-germany-and-japan-behind-bars-ontiveros-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-germany-and-japan-behind-bars-ontiveros-1942.jpg)

# Germany and Japan Behind Bars (Spanish-language Allied flags poster, no printed title)

Dozens of Allied national flags on tall poles form a cage, and behind its bars two caricatured figures cringe: one with a toothbrush moustache and swastika armband, the other drawn with exaggerated teeth, round glasses and a naval uniform. The caricature is the name-calling tell, and the ring of many nations' flags is the bandwagon appeal that the Allied side is large and united.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Publicado por El Coordinador de Asuntos
Interamericanos, Washington, E.U.A.
551404
Ontiveros
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, U.S.A.
551404
Ontiveros
```

[← The People of the United States and China Unite. Rally to Your Leaders to Destroy Japanese Militarism. (Chinese-language banner)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-china-america-unite-destroy-japanese-militarism-1942/) [En 1942 l'Amérique construira 60.000 avions de guerre; en 1943, 125.000 \[In 1942 America will build 60,000 warplanes; in 1943, 125,000\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-government-roosevelt-60000-125000-warplanes-french-1942/)

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