"Best Military Propaganda Poster" Topic

Propaganda has been around wars for a long time now – and can be very effective

I have a few favorites – what are yours?
PLEASE AVOID POSTERS IN POOR TASTE

The French in Madagascar

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The French in WWI

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Americans in WWII

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When it comes to propaganda, which often seeks to dehumanise the enemy, what is meant by "poor taste"?

My understanding is that it's OK for imperial propaganda to demonize the enemy in 40K because they are actually demons.

BillyNM@ there is a poster from the Spanish civil war showing a photo of a dead child, with bomber planes in the background, with the line "If you tolerate this your children will be next". I wouldn't post that image here because I feel like dead children is poor taste.

This has to be mine:

A couple of mine:
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I like this one:
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At the risk of being provincial there is this one

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I've always enjoyed this one……..it is the best propaganda!
Translates to something like "They are all giving up because the new spring beer has arrived!"

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If the link doesn't work, Norman Rockwell, "To Make Men Free."

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Still the tops:

Second is this, of course:

Herky – Barter Books ! Not been there for far too long. I bought an original copy of 1937 Infantry Training Manual there and they had loads of copies on the shelves. It might have come from the same box as the poster !

Parzival – a great poster but can't be "the tops" as it is, when all is said and done, still a knock off of the Kitchener original! (See the link in the OFM's post)

I vote for Prince Rupert's one.

So many good ones…

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@parzival, The Uncle Sam one is good, but I prefer the original..

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The second one is good..

@herkybird that's one of my faves…

All good choices!

Seeing few are looking beyond their borders:

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Got to be the. Kitchener pointed finger – so good it was copied, so memorable it is still parodied more than a century later

The Kitchener one inspired so many

Churchill

On the Wiki page at the bottom there are many other nations posters that used Kitchener for inspiration including Smokey the Bear link

I always assumed this one got regularly added to:

with:

and don't hurry back

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don't worry we'll be just fine without you

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Could you get milk on the way back?

etc etc etc

The slightly more subtle

"Yup, and if you were in the navy I'd definitely join"

And then the basic guilt trip:

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Since propaganda can be defined as 'information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.' it is surely debatable whether some of the posters linked above that simply encourage people to join their country's armed forces qualify as propaganda.

Love Chirsty Artwork

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arthur – good point – in retrospect probably could have done as 2 polls

Norman Rockwell

Motherland calls! (The woman holds the text of the military oath in her hands).

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British Merchant Marine
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The home front
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Home front sharing cars

Pershings Crusaders
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New Zealand
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