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title: What Nazis think of German-Americans
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/what-nazis-think-of-german-americans-1943/
description: A red line caricature of a head in profile, labelled 'LIES' on the cheek and with a swastika-marked pen as its mouth, sits above a bilingual text.
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**Content note:** Red line caricature of a head with a swastika-marked pen for a mouth, and a quoted Nazi spokesman's description of German emigrants as 'uprooted creatures'. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# What Nazis think of German-Americans

A red line caricature of a head in profile, labelled 'LIES' on the cheek and with a swastika-marked pen as its mouth, sits above a bilingual text. German typewriter-strip lines and an English gloss quote a Berlin spokesman of 28 October 1942 calling German emigrants 'uprooted creatures'. The poster selects one quoted insult to address German-Americans, and its own caricature is name-calling aimed at the Nazi regime.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

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

```
WHAT NAZIS THINK OF
GERMAN-AMERICANS

Braun von Stumm, Sprecher für Joseph Goebbels, bezeichnete
die deutschen Einwanderer in Amerika in einer Presse-Konferenz
im Ministerium für Presse und Propaganda, Wilhelmstrasse,
Berlin, den 28. Oktober 1942, folgenderweise:

Braun von Stumm, spokesman for Joseph Goebbels, at a
press conference held in the Ministry of Press and Propaganda,
Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin, on October 28, 1942, described German
emigrants to America as follows:

= OKTOBER 28 15:33 NACHMITTAG BERLIN
OCTOBER 28  3:33 P.M.  BERLIN
DEUTSCHE EMIGRANTEN SIND VOELLIG
GERMAN EMIGRANTS ARE COMPLETELY
ENTWURZELTE KREATUREN DIE DIE BEZEICH-
UPROOTED CREATURES WHO DO
NUNG "DEUTSCH" NICHT VERDIENEN =
NOT DESERVE TO BE CALLED GERMAN

[inside the caricature:] LIES

[imprint:] OWI Poster No. 48. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D.C.
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-512675
```

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

```
Braun von Stumm, spokesman for Joseph Goebbels, described the German immigrants in America at a press conference in the Ministry of Press and Propaganda, Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin, on 28 October 1942, as follows: October 28, 3:33 p.m., Berlin. German emigrants are completely uprooted creatures who do not deserve the designation 'German'.
```

Left column and typewriter strips are German; the English gloss beneath each is printed on the sheet.

[← 'Wer hatte recht?' ('Who was right?') (Allied leaflet to Germany)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wer-hatte-recht-raf-leaflet-1943/) [Where our men are fighting our food is fighting →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/where-our-men-are-fighting-our-food-is-fighting-1943/)

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