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Destroy This Mad Brute - Enlist - US Army

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Title

Destroy This Mad Brute - Enlist - US Army

Description

With its terrifying gorilla in a German military helmet reaching the shores of America, leaving a devastated Europe behind, this propaganda poster uses fear of the enemy as a military recruitment tool. Anti-German propaganda themes contributed to the discrimination and persecution German-Americans faced during the war.

Creator

Harry Hopps

Date

circa 1917

Bibliographic Citation

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, WWI Posters, [LC-DIG-ds-03216]