This Is Nazi Brutality

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