Enemy Ears are Listening

Artist Ralph W. Iligan United States, 1893 - 1960

Printer U.S. Government Printing Office Washington D.C

Date1942

Dimensions13 x 25 1/2 in. (33 x 64.8 cm)

ClassificationsPoster

Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz

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Object numberPH.145

DescriptionThe poster incorporates photorealistic images of the leaders of the Axis nations: Adolf Hitler, Chancellor and Führer of Germany, Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy, and Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister and Minister of War in Japan. Because of Japan’s relative geographic proximity, spies working for its government represented a greater psychological threat to the United States than to Europe. As such, American posters reflect a higher level of anti-Japanese sentiment, especially after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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