Houghton Library collection of World War II propaganda and ephemera

Contains primarily propaganda from World War II and the years directly surrounding. Series I contains propaganda produced by the Allies together and the United Kingdom and United States independently. Some of the U.S. propaganda is intended to morale-boosting to U.S. soldiers and officers in the field, while some is aimed towards the Germans during and after the war. Included in this series are a large number of special U.S. Army printings of American magazines, comics, and Western and detective novellas. There is a considerable amount of Nazi propaganda in multiple languages in Series II, including that dropped by the Luftwaffe into war zones to appeal to Allied soldiers to surrender rather than fight. There is also a sub-series of materials in French, propaganda for occupied France and the countries it then controlled as colonial territories, including Algeria and other African countries. Series III includes propaganda from other countries, including Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy, and Japan. The Danish propaganda was noted on its original container to likely be directed by the Nazis. The Japanese propaganda is related to workers' rights and the communist cause in that country. Series IV contains ephemera related to World War II, including maps showing bombed areas, a Nazi work permit, various U.S. documents including messages to the Germans signed by General Dwight D. Eisenhower regarding the U.S. occupation of the country in April 1945.