Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
This Is Nazi Brutality
Artifact IDMO 2005.13.20.5.1
Object Type
Poster
Artist
Ben Shahn
(American painter, photographer, and lithographer, 1898 - 1969)
Maker
U.S. Government Printing Office
(American, founded 1861)
Issuing Body
U.S. Office of War Information
(American, 1942 - 1945)
Issuing Body
Division of Public Inquiries, OWI
(American, founded 1942)
Date1942
Mediumpaper, ink
Dimensionsoverall H 38 in x W 28 3/8 in (96.5 cm x 72.1 cm )
Physical DescriptionA color poster featuring a large illustration of a handcuffed man with a sack over his head. He is standing against the backdrop of high exterior brick walls with the sky visible overhead. The artist’s facsimile signature is in the lower right corner: Ben Shahn. Red text across the torso of the figure reads: This is Nazi brutality. Beneath this, in black text on yellow stripes (designed to represent a telegram message) is the wording: RADIO BERLIN -- IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED: - / ALL MEN OF LIDICE - CZECHOSLOVAKIA - HAVE BEEN SHOT: / THE WOMEN DEPORTED TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP: / THE CHILDREN SENT TO APPROPRIATE CENTERS -- THE / NAME OF THE VILLAGE WAS IMMEDIATELY ABOLISHED. / 6/11/42/115P.
Small black text printed along the bottom edge of the poster reads: POSTER No. 11. ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION. ADDITIONAL COPIES MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF PUBLIC INQUIRIES, OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION, WASHINGTON, D. C. / U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-491104.
Historical NoteThis OWI poster refers to the Lidice massacre, ordered by Hitler as a response to the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, chief lieutenant to SS leader Heinrich Himmler and a leading architect of the Holocaust. Small black text printed along the bottom edge of the poster reads: POSTER No. 11. ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION. ADDITIONAL COPIES MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF PUBLIC INQUIRIES, OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION, WASHINGTON, D. C. / U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-491104.
Additional Details
Custodial History NoteDonated to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum by the Adriance Memorial Library.
Credit LineGift of the Adriance Memorial Library
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesOriginal Posters from World War I and World War II (National Archives Identifier 739394)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.In Collection(s)
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