This is the Enemy

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This is the Enemy
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  • Title :     This is the Enemy
  • Artist:     Barbara Marks Designer US Office of War Information, Washington, DC Publisher US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Printer
  • Accession:     1993.1.12
  • Country:     United States Washington, D.C.
  • Date:     1943
  • Dimensions:     Inches 40 28-1/2, Centimeters 101.6 72.4
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Posters and Printed Ephemera
  • Collection Theme:     War and Political Propaganda
  • Subject:     Anti-Nazism , Enemy , War/Military , World War II 1940-1945 , Propaganda
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, Gift of The Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
  • URL:     1993.1.12.JPG
  • Tags:     War and Political Propaganda~Posters and Printed Ephemera
Description:
Ink on paper poster warning citizens of enemy presence during World War II; image depicts the arm of the enemy wearing a swastika on the sleeve of his uniform stabbing the center of the Holy Bible with a dagger set against a bright red ground.