A propaganda poster in the style of 1940s American wartime art, celebrating the fall of Berlin. The main image is a large, powerful, brown leather G.I. combat boot with a heavy sole, crushing a broken, red and black swastika emblem on a debris-filled, cobbled street. Behind the boot, the iconic, bombed-out dome of the Reichstag building is silhouetted against a dramatic, stylized sunrise with rays of light breaking through dark, swirling clouds. In the middle ground, on the left, a muscular American factory worker in blue overalls and a hard hat, with a wrench in his hand, clasps the hand of a smiling American soldier in a helmet and fatigues, who is holding a rifle. Both figures are looking towards the viewer with determined expressions. The background is a stark, desaturated cityscape of rubble and ruined buildings. The color palette is dominated by bold reds, whites, and blues, with sepia tones for the ruins. At the very top, in large, blocky, distressed red letters, is the slogan: "YOU HELPED SMASH THEM!" Below it, in a slightly smaller, sans-serif white font, is the subtext: "Berlin has fallen! Your labor in the factories and your war bonds put the steel in our tanks and the wings on our planes. Don't stop now—let’s finish the job in the Pacific!" The entire poster has a textured, aged look, as if printed on coarse paper and stapled to a wooden wall.
