PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Ben Shahn, This is Nazi Brutality: Office of War Information Poster, no. 11 (Washington D. C.: United States Office of War Information, 1942).
At the United States Office of War Information, Ben Shahn created a poster commemorating Lidice entitled “This is Nazi Brutality,” to show Americans the true nature of their enemy. The poster featured an abridged version of the German broadcast superimposed on a hooded figure in shackles.
Nicholas G. Balint, ed., Lidice Lives Forever (New York: Europa Books, 1942).
The outraged Allies used the massacre of Lidice as an example or symbol, and as a lesson. These uses were best represented in a small book edited by Nicholas G. Balint entitled Lidice Lives Forever. A Czech Jew, Balint had fled with his family to Britain and later emigrated to the United States in August 1941. After the atrocity of Lidice became known the next year, he published his book “In memory of the Czech people of Lidice – who loved freedom – who died for freedom.” Balint’s book told the story of the massacre and the origin of the Lidice Lives movement and he announced the explicit three-fold purpose of his book: “to realize the nature of our enemy, steel us to hate him implacably, and teach us why we must destroy him utterly.”