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(Classic anti-American poster highly useful for illustrating article "Anti-Americanism".)

A 1944 Nazi propaganda poster titled "LIBERATORS", which perfectly epitomizes many perennially-recurring themes of anti-Americanism. Published in 1944 by the Dutch SS-Storm magazine that then belonged to a radical SS wing of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands.

Text contained in image: "Miss America", "Miss Victory", "Ku Klux Klan", "JITTERBUG - Triumph of Civilization", "World's Most Beautiful Leg". Symbols contained in image: reverse side of 48-star United States flag, WW2-era Army Air Corps roundel, dollar sign, Star of David. Dutch caption at bottom (proferred by European gullible "all-ears" dupe) reads: "De USA zullen de Europeesche Kultuur van den ondergang redden", meaning something like "The USA will save European culture from decline". The poster was made by the Norwegian Harald Damsleth [1].

Some motifs contained in this poster:

• The immorality of beauty pageants (unclad "Miss America", scantily-clad "Miss Victory", "The World's Most Beautiful Leg") -- or more generally, the putative sexual laxness of American women, a theme which strongly resonates with extremists today.
• Gangsterism and gun violence (the arm of an escaped convict holding a submachine gun).
• Anti-black violence (a lynching noose, a Ku Klux Klan hood).
• General violence of American society, in addition to the above (boxing-glove which grasps the money-bag).
• Mistreatement of Native Americans ("Miss America" wears plains-Indian head-dress).
• The pure materialism or commercialism of America, to the detriment of any spirit or soul (moneybag with "$" symbol).
• The presence of blacks in U.S. population, contributing to its "mongrelization", adding undesirably "primitive" elements to American popular culture, and constituting a potential danger to the white race (strongly muscular arms of a black male, a stereotypically-caricatured black couple dancing the "JITTERBUG - Triumph of Civilization" in birdcage, which is portrayed as a degraded animalistic ritual).
• Decadence of American popular culture, and its pernicious influence on the rest of the world (dancing of jitterbug, hand holds phonograph record, figure of a European gullible "all-ears" dupe in lower foreground).
• Indiscriminate U.S. military violence (bloodied bomb for foot, metal legs, military aircraft wings), threatening the European cultural landmarks at lower right.
  • Hence the falsity of American claims to be "Liberators". (The word "Liberators" was also the name of a U.S. bomber plane.)
• American jingoism and war fervor (a business-suited arm literally "beating the drum" of militarism, "Miss Victory" and her drum-majorette cap and boots).
• Malevolent influence of Jews and Freemasons (Star of David on Masonic apron descending from drum, caricatured Jewish figure holding on to money-bag).
• Demonization of national symbols of the United States ("Miss Victory" waves the reverse side of 48-star U.S. flag, and the WW2-era Army Air Corps roundel -- of small red disk within white star on large blue disk -- is shown on one of the wings).

This poster was also printed in a full-color version with the title "KULTUR-TERROR" in large blue letters at the top (instead of "LIBERATORS" in red)[2].

Technical note -- I blurred the heck out of the paper speckles and folds in areas of the image which did not contain meaningful information (in order to increase the quality of the image and reduce filesize), and sharpened the remaining areas. This procedure introduced small image artifacts at the boundaries between the blurred and sharpened areas.

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