Hitler Wants Us to Believe That: Democracy Is Dying; Our Armed Forces Are Weak. , 1942. [Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/96507434/.

Caricature of Adolph Hitler and a propaganda message made by him.

Democracy is Dying

Our armed forces are weak

The “New Order” is inevitable

Jews cause everybody’s troubles, everywhere

We are lost in the Pacific

Our West Coast is in such grave danger there is no point in fighting on

The British are decadent, and “sold us a bill of goods”

Some sort of “peace” can be made with Nazi Germany

The cost of war will bankrupt the nation

Civilian sacrifices will be more than we can bear

Our leaders are incompetent; our Government incapable of waging war

Stalin is getting too strong, and Bolshevism will sweep over Europe

Aid to our allies must stop

This is a “white man’s war”; our real peril is the Japanese, and we must join Germany to stomp out the “Yellow Peril”

We must bring all our troops and weapons back to the United States, and defend only our own shares.

The Chinese, the British, and the Russians will make separate peace with Japan and Germany

American democracy will be lost during the war; the two-party system is dead; Congressional elections will never be held again