What Is an "Aryan"? He Is Handsome as Goebbels
A cartoon of Joseph Goebbels as a snarling, tailed, mouse-like figure shouting from a podium under the text 'What is an Aryan? He is handsome as Goebbels'. The tell is the sarcastic label and animal caricature, which mock Nazi racial ideology by attaching its term to a ridiculed figure.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Russian War Relief, Inc. (reproduction of a 1941 Soviet war poster)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- 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; hosted by owner decision
Russian War Relief, Inc. (after a 1941 Soviet poster), National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-22.
Text on the object
WHAT IS AN "ARYAN"? HE IS HANDSOME AS GOEBBELS [imprint:] REPRODUCED FROM SOVIET WAR POSTER 1941 · BY RUSSIAN WAR RELIEF INC.
