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LOT 306:
"Ten Years Ago the Nazis Burned These Books" - American Propaganda Poster, 1943
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"Ten Years Ago the Nazis Burned These Books" - American Propaganda Poster, 1943
Ten years ago: The Nazis Burned These Books… but free Americans Can Still Read Them. A lithograph poster printed on behalf of the United States Office of War Information (American-government agency which operated during World War II and distributed propaganda). [Washington, 1943]. English.
In the center of the poster is a photograph showing the burning of the books organized by the Nazi propaganda office and held in May 1933 in the Berlin opera place.
Such propaganda posters were distributed in the United States when it entered the war to present to the American public the danger of the Nazi enemy.
50.5X71 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Tear by the top margin of the poster, with color completion. Linen-backed for display and preservation.
