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WWII propaganda poster showing Little Red Riding Hood pulling open the Big Bad Wolf, revealing an old woman on a world map with chains and a Statue of Liberty inside. Nazi and Rising Sun flags are in the background.

WWII propaganda poster showing Little Red Riding Hood pulling open the Big Bad Wolf, revealing an old woman on a world map with chains and a Statue of Liberty inside. Nazi and Rising Sun flags are in the background.

A World War II American propaganda poster in the style of bold painted wartime illustration. In the center of the scene, a huge, monstrous Big Bad Wolf lies collapsed on the ground, its belly ripped wide open in a stylized, non‑gory way. The wolf represents the Axis powers: the left half of its body has a Nazi swastika armband on its front leg and Hitler‑style hair and mustache, while the right half wears Japanese samurai armor plates and displays a Rising Sun emblem. Around the wolf are broken barbed wire, smashed helmets, and torn Nazi and Rising Sun banners, showing the defeat of Germany and Japan. Inside the open stomach is a dark prison‑like space. In the middle, an elderly woman (Grandma) represents the world: she sits on the ground wrapped in a tattered world‑map blanket focused on Europe and Asia. On the blanket, the names “France,” “Poland,” “Czechoslovakia,” “Norway,” “Netherlands,” “China,” and “Philippines” are clearly visible and shaded in dark colors to show they were occupied by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Heavy chains with swastikas and Rising Sun symbols wrap around Grandma and sections of the map. Behind her, inside the stomach, stands a small, dull Statue of Liberty statue, its torch barely glowing and also wrapped in chains, symbolizing freedom and democracy trapped by tyranny. On the left side, Little Red Riding Hood represents the Allied nations. She braces her feet and uses both hands to pull open the wolf’s split stomach so that the prisoners Mehr sehen