Victory Bonds will help stop this. Kultur vs. humanity (Canada)

A uniformed man swims with a Red Cross nurse held against his chest, shaking his fist at a surfacing submarine, beside a lifebuoy lettered for the hospital ship Llandovery Castle. The slogan sets 'Kultur', the wartime label for German civilisation, against 'humanity' (name-calling), and borrows the Red Cross emblem and a drowned nurse to attach the sinking's outrage to the purchase of bonds.

Date: 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: Dominion of Canada, 1918 Victory Loan campaign (issuing committee and artist not printed on the sheet)
Region: North America
Country: Canada
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Mixed
Regime: Borden Government
Leader: Robert Borden
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Fundraise
Themes: War and the military, Economy and finance
Event: World War I
Techniques: Name-calling Transfer
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Library of Congress, retrieved September 29, 2026
Rights: Public domain (published 1918, before 1931; LOC: no known restrictions)
Anonymous, Canada. [1918]. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-12169.

Text on the object

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

VICTORY
BONDS
WILL HELP STOP
- THIS -

KULTUR VS. HUMANITY.

[lifebuoy in the water:] LLANDOVERY CAST[LE, the last letters cut off by the curve of the buoy]

W.P. 2 [printer's mark, lower left]

The photographed copy is bordered by Kodak colour and gray-scale calibration strips added for archival photography, not part of the original poster.