We French Workers Warn You: Defeat Means Slavery, Starvation, Death
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.”
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, We French Workers Warn You: Defeat Means Slavery, Starvation, Death. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90712764/
Ben Shahn, artist United States War Production Board, funder/sponsor U.S. Government Printing Office, printer
France; United States; World War II (1939–1945); Nazi occupation of France; American home front