Destroy this mad brute
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, public domain
Contributors: Harry R. Hopps
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, public domain
Destroy this mad brute – Enlist, U.S. Army, lithograph, 106 x 71 cm, ca. 1917, artist: Harry R. Hopps; source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ds-03216 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.03216, public domain.
Under the title "Destroy this mad brute – Enlist", this poster of the US army depicts a gorilla with its eyes and mouth wide open. In its left arm, it is holding a half-naked woman, and in its right arm, it is carrying a bloodied cudgel, on which the word "Kultur" can be read. Its Prussian Pickelhaube helmet has the word "Militarism" printed on it. It is stamping menacingly on American soil.
Destroy this mad brute – Enlist, U.S. Army, lithograph, 106 x 71 cm, ca. 1917, artist: Harry R. Hopps; source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ds-03216 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.03216, public domain.