We French Workers Warn You: Defeat Means Slavery, Starvation, Death

We French Workers Warn You: Defeat Means Slavery, Starvation, Death

Ben Shahn

propaganda
World War II (1939–1945)
France
United States
war production
workers
Nazi occupation
anti-Nazi propaganda
American war posters

World War II propaganda poster by Ben Shahn showing three French laborers with their hands raised. The poster warns American workers that defeat by Nazi Germany would mean “slavery, starvation, death.” It uses the suffering of French workers under Nazi occupation as a warning and encourages support for the American war effort and war production. The Library of Congress summary describes the image as “Three laborers with hands raised.”

War Production Board, Washington, D.C.

Ben Shahn, artist
United States War Production Board, funder/sponsor
U.S. Government Printing Office, printer

1942

Image

color poster; print; war poster

LC-USZC4-1664

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, We French Workers Warn You: Defeat Means Slavery, Starvation, Death.

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90712764/

English

Posters: Artist Posters collection

France; United States; World War II (1939–1945); Nazi occupation of France; American home front

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