This Is Nazi Brutality
Ben Shahn1942
U.S. National Archives
United States
A color poster featuring an image of a handcuffed man with a sack over his head. Behind him is a high brick wall. 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. The artwork is by Ben Shahn. U. S. Government Printing Office 1942-O-491104. Division of Public Inquiries Office of War Information, Poster No. 11.
MO 2005.13.20.5.1
- Title: This Is Nazi Brutality
- Creator: Ben Shahn (1898-1969), U.S. Government Printing Office, U.S. Office of War Information, Division of Public Inquiries, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration
- Date Created: 1942
- Location Created: Washington, DC
- Original Source: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/739394
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