A hand injured by a wooden stick which is also a pole bearing Germanic lettering and a swastika, comparing Germany in wartime to germs. Colour lithograph after H.A. Rothholz.

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A hand injured by a wooden stick which is also a pole bearing Germanic lettering and a swastika, comparing Germany in wartime to germs. Colour lithograph after H.A. Rothholz. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Bears device: triangle with cogwheels

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London (Terminal House, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.1.) : Issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ([Place of manufacture not identified] : Loxley Bros. Ltd.)

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 76 x 50 cm

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Germs invade ; get first aid and don't help the enemy ; H A Rothholz The same comparison had been made in the First World war: 'the German was "nothing better than a bacillic germ"' (M. Tippett, Stormy weather: F.H. Varley, a biography, Toronto 1998, p. 98, quoting a letter of 8 November 1918) Bears number: MLFA/182

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Wellcome Collection 32607i

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