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English: "DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE - Enlist U.S. Army" is the caption of this World War I propaganda poster for enlistment in the US Army. A dribbling, mustachioed monke wielding a club bearing the German word "kultur" and wearing a pickelhaube helmet with the word "militarism" is walking onto the shore of America while holding a half-naked woman in his grasp (possible meant to depict Liberty). This is a US version of an earlier British poster with the same image. Dated ca 1917.
Date between 1917 and 1918
date QS:P,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1918-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source http://web.viu.ca/davies/H482.WWI/poster.US.DestroyThisMadBrute.jpg
Author US government related, H.R. Hopps 1917 http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/pl003967/index.html
Other versions Image:'Destroy this mad brute' WWI propaganda poster (US version).jpg

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