The simpler your methods are, the better propaganda works. Especially when it comes to damaging your enemy’s reputation. The story about folding puzzles can give a clear picture of this idea. A folding puzzle is a sheet of paper that can be folded up to reveal smaller pictures made up of elements of the original. Shortly after the Second World War was ended, the British Ministry of Information started releasing simple puzzles named “Where is the fifth pig?”, which had a number of different pictures on the front, and when folded in a special complex way depicted a hidden picture of Hitler. The process was started and continues up to the present day.
Such puzzles were being dropped by planes of the Royal Air Force in an enormous amount in the skies above occupied Europe as leaflets. This one was intended for the Netherlands
The Polish version differs from other puzzles by the pigs, which took after the Nazi leaders and were signed as four-eyed Heinrich Himmler, who was also marked by words “Auschwitz”, “Majdanek”, and “Treblinka”, skinny humpback Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering gorging on a small Polish biplane, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, also known as Rieben-Trup. Trup means corpse in Polish
Two pictures above were being distributed by the British Embassy in Iraq, where pro-German and pro-Italian sympathies were very widespread. They depict a pig and a jackal, which are considered unclean by Muslims. Hitler and Mussolini could be made up of the parts of such a leaflet
This puzzle is from 1991, the Gulf War. People were going crazy about dinosaurs, and the portrait of Saddam Hussein is made up of dinosaurs
These days. Some people think that the 45th president of the United States is worse than Hitler was, and the old method is used now against Donald Trump. The text in the puzzle tells us that Charles Darwin made a mistake, and not all men evolved from the monkey.
