World's Most Beautiful Leg

[prog]

Dig this crazy WWII propaganda poster gallery from Life magazine. I thought I was well versed in the genre - indeed, ol' Rosie is represented here, as is the famously gruesome "This is the Enemy" series - but I have never seen most of these before, including several from Axis powers.

I love the first page's poster where the artist - who signed the work with a Nazi SS sigil - caricatures the incoming Americans as being murderous lunatics headed by the Ku Klux Klan. Or this one, encouraging American soldiers to surrender now so they can score with the ladies later.

(Also: Life magazine still exists as a discrete entity? I did not know that. Good on them!)

Comments

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... so where's the WW2 "we must keep taxes low" poster for the US?

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

And at least two of the Klan-monster's arms are black, with one bearing a phonograph record and a noose wrapped around it. Those Americans, when they're not busy lynching black people they have the nerve to go off and BE black people!