Put the squeeze on the Japanese

Depicts an image of a caricatured and exaggerated Japanese man being squeezed between sections of machinery in an industrial press. This is one of a number of anti-Japanese posters produced in Australia during the Second World War. General Motors is an American owned car manufacturer, and the company also produced American war posters. All of the manufacturing industries in Allied countries were central to the war effort. So central was the car manufacturing industry to the American campaign, that President Franklin Roosevelt called Detroit the 'Arsenal of Democracy'. However, General Motors, through its German factories (GM-Opel) also assisted the Nazi war effort.