We French Workers Warn You: Defeat Means Slavery, Starvation, Death
subject: propaganda World War II (1939–1945) France United States war production workers Nazi occupation anti-Nazi propaganda American war posters
description: 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.”
creator: Ben Shahn
source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, We French Workers Warn You: Defeat Means Slavery, Starvation, Death. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90712764/
publisher: War Production Board, Washington, D.C.
date: 1942
contributor: Ben Shahn, artist United States War Production Board, funder/sponsor U.S. Government Printing Office, printer
rights: No known restrictions on publication.
relation: Posters: Artist Posters collection
format: color poster; print; war poster
language: English
type: Image
coverage: France; United States; World War II (1939–1945); Nazi occupation of France; American home front