Destroy This Mad Brute - Enlist

Harry Ryle Hopps: Destroy This Mad Brute - Enlist, 106 × 71 cm, lithograph, USA 1917

Destroy This Mad Brute - Enlist is an American propaganda poster by Harry Ryle Hopps that was created in 1917 during the First World War . It measures 106 cm × 71 cm and shows the German enemy in the form of a human-like primate with a characteristic Prussian spiked bonnet with the inscription Militarism , a blond, twisted mustache like Kaiser Wilhelm II wore it, a blood-smeared wooden club with the inscription Kultur in der right hand, also bloody, and in the left arm a trapped bare-breasted woman. This propaganda poster refers to real historical events such as the invasion of Belgium (" Rape of Belgium ") and the manifesto of the 93 . This propaganda was intended to induce Americans to volunteer for the US Army .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank Kämper: "Destroy this mad brute". Emotional mobilization in the USA 1917. In: Gerhard Paul (Hrsg.): The Century of Pictures 1900–1949. Göttingen 2009, pp. 212-220.

Web links

• Poster in the Hoover Institution Political Poster Database
• Poster in the World War I Posters Collection at the Library of Congress