Criminal Propaganda poster in Estonian picturing Roosevelt as the friend of US criminals

The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013. 

Criminal Propaganda poster in Estonian picturing Roosevelt as the friend of US criminals 

overall: Height: 47.875 inches (121.603 cm) | Width: 33.750 inches (85.725 cm) 

Anti-American propaganda poster issued in Estonia after it was annexed by Nazi Germany in September 1941. The poster accuses Roosevelt of being a liar and associate of gangsters such as Al Capone. It calls for the destruction of Jews and this criminal race. In July 1941, Germany invaded Estonia and made it part of the Reich Commissariat Ostland, a German civilian administration. Estonia was under German rule until September 1944, when it was annexed by the Soviet Union. 

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Large rectangular poster on light brown paper with an orange background and narrow light brown border. The left side is text only. The text block has a bold font title, then approximately 5 paragraphs denigrating Roosevelt and the US, followed by an underlined end line. The 2nd paragraph, a quote, is displayed on a white field. The right side has a photographic image of Roosevelt. He holds a poster in his left hand, with his right hand held to his forehead, pushing his white hat upwards. The poster has 6 captioned photographs of US criminals: the top row has 3 mugshots with a man’s face and a prison booking id; the bottom 3 depict a man from the waist up in a suit and tie.