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Street scene in Wales with “Freedom is in Peril” poster displayed in a shop window

This Russian poster, “The Enemy of Humankind,” depicts Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, who was largely blamed for World War I, as a devil with cloven hooves holding human skulls.

This Italian propaganda poster depicts Winston Churchill as a grotesque octopus fastening his tentacles around the globe. The octopus is commonly used in propaganda to represent an evil, grasping adversary hungry for land and power.

Postcard portraying Axis leaders – Hitler, Hirohito, and Mussolini – as monkeys in a zoo.

This Cuban propaganda poster produced by OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America) features Richard Nixon as a fanged bird ripping the heart from Indochina with his talons.

The “Tokio Kid” campaign consisted of a series of posters featuring a caricature of a Japanese man with highly exaggerated features such as pointed ears and fangs

This anti-Semitic French-language flyer reads “Tuberculosis, Syphilis, Cancer are curable ...It is necessary to finish the biggest curse: The Jew!!”

A group of men reading Der Stürmer, Worm Germany