The U.S. government produced a bevy of propaganda posters that emphasized why the nation was at war and the specific American values that were at stake. This particularly dramatic design depicts an arm with a swastika on its sleeve piercing the Holy Bible with a sword, a vivid evocation of Nazi attacks on Christianity that would have been especially shocking to the many devout Christian Americans who would have seen this image. Produced by the nonprofit organization Artists for Victory, this is one in a series of posters that addressed themes from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first war message to Congress on January 6, 1942, and references “The Nature of the Enemy.” The tagline used here would appear on numerous other posters of the period, each presenting a particularly visceral “enemy” for the viewer to fear. The other themes included production, war bonds, and careless talk, all of which inspired additional poster campaigns. This design was printed and distributed by the United States Office of War Information (OWI), created by President Roosevelt to disseminate war information on a national scale through radio, newspapers, film shorts, and posters. It did not take long for the OWI to attract criticism for appearing to act more as a propaganda agency–producing material that seemed to “sell” the war–than a source of objective facts and figures.