Enemy Ears are Listening
1942
Artist
Ralph W. Iligan
Printer
U.S. Government Printing Office Washington D.C
DIMENSIONS
13 x 25 1/2 in. (33 x 64.8 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.145
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Espionage, Germany, Hideki Tojo, Italy, Japan, Political, United States, With My Little Eye: Warnings For The Homefront, WWII
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Peter A. Blatz
KEYWORDS
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Espionage, Germany, Hideki Tojo, Italy, Japan, Political, United States, With My Little Eye: Warnings For The Homefront, WWII
The 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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