World War II French poster collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12683
• English
• 1942
• overall: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

French announcement poster blaming Jews for the problems of farmers and peasants published by Centre Payson in September 1942. The text claims that Jews unfairly benefit from the peasant’s labor, manipulate the black market for their benefit, and are to blame for the war. After the occupation of France, German authorities began releasing propaganda to provoke antiemetic sentiment among the public. Germany invaded France in May 1940. In June France signed an armistice which gave the Germans control of northern and western France, including Paris. The unoccupied territory was governed from th...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12684
• English
• overall: Height: 46.500 inches (118.11 cm) | Width: 31.375 inches (79.693 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Anti-British propaganda poster showing a hungry, pregnant mother and child in France while Winston Churchill stands idly by. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In response Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. Germany invaded France in May 1940. In June, Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain signed an armistice which gave the Germans control of northern and western France, including Paris. The Germans used the industrial and agricultural areas of the occupied zone to produce goods primarily for Germany and the war effort, with the remainder going to the French publi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12685
• English
• overall: Height: 46.500 inches (118.11 cm) | Width: 31.375 inches (79.693 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Propaganda poster in French showing German global victories against the British Empire. The poster depicts Winston Churchill’s caricatured, disembodied head with 12 tentacles, several bloody and truncated, reaching out over Africa and the Middle East, and extending past the border toward America and Asia. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. On June 22, 1940, France signed an armistice agreement by which the Germans would occupy the northern half of France. After the armistice and occupation, German authorities...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12686
• English
• overall: Height: 46.875 inches (119.063 cm) | Width: 31.500 inches (80.01 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Propaganda poster in French stating how Britain created its Empire by taking French territories. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In response Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. On June 22, 1940, France signed an armistice agreement by which the Germans would occupy the northern half of France. After the armistice and occupation, German authorities began releasing propaganda to fuel the resentment many French people held towards the British. The poster lists, in chronological order, French colonial losses to Britain by year. In 1704, as part of the war of...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12687
• English
• overall: Height: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm) | Width: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Propaganda poster in French with a chart showing the number of warships that the United States had lost between October 27 and December 5, 1943, in the war with Japan. The poster was meant to show that the Pacific War was going badly for the Americans. It references two battles specifically, Bougainville and Gilbert and Marshall Islands, which were two campaigns that resulted in American victories over Japan. The poster claims that 50% of the US war fleet had been destroyed in a period of 39 days. The chart shows that 56 ships had been sunk and a further 41 had been damaged. The poster uses...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12688
• English
• 1941
• overall: Height: 46.125 inches (117.158 cm) | Width: 32.375 inches (82.233 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Allegorical pro-German propaganda poster depicting France under attack by hostile, foreign elements allied with the Françaises Libres [Free French] movement. France is symbolized by a couple caring for the land, representing the safety and stability of France. They are threatened by three wolves labelled Freemasonry, Jews, and de Gaulle, supported by Lies, a three-headed snake, who seek to stop the regeneration of France. France was occupied by Nazi Germany from June 1940- fall 1944. The Free French were those who sought to continue the war against Germany even though France had surrendered...