20 Iconic British World War II Propaganda Posters

2. "Beat 'Firebomb Fritz' - Britain Shall Not Burn" (1941)

This is a 1943 photo of a British propaganda poster with a graphic appeal to the British nation and a challenge to the Axis during World War II. (AP Photo)
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Another Ministry of Information poster released in 1941, this one showed the partisan nature of warfare. Britons were urged to "Beat 'Firebomb Fritz'", who was shown as a cartoon German incendiary bomb with a swastika symbol and he was being extinguished by water, presumably distributed by the fire service.

 
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