This is Nazi Brutality

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This is Nazi Brutality
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  • Title :     This is Nazi Brutality
  • Artist:     Ben Shahn Designer US Office of War Information, Washington, DC Publisher US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Printer
  • Accession:     TD1989.121.3 a,b
  • Country:     United States Washington, D.C.
  • Date:     1942
  • Dimensions:     Inches 37-15/16 28-5/16 Dimensions, poster (a) Inches 9-1/2 12 Dimensions, envelope (b), Centimeters 96.3 71.9 Dimensions, poster (a) Centimeters 24.1 30.5 Dimensions, envelope (b)
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Posters and Printed Ephemera
  • Collection Theme:     War and Political Propaganda
  • Subject:     Anti-Nazism , Death , War/Military , Figurative , World War II 1940-1945 , Propaganda
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
  • URL:     TD1989.121.3.JPG
  • Tags:     War and Political Propaganda~Posters and Printed Ephemera
Description:
Ink on paper photo-offset color lithograph promoting anti-Nazi sentiment; image depicts a hooded male figure chained to a massive wall of red brick; in the foreground is an inscription in ticker tape format; poster arrived in original mailing envelope for postal distribution of the above poster. a: poster, b: envelope