"Remember the Amritsar Incident!” — Japanese poster published and distributed during the Second World War, specifically during Japan’s 1941 invasion of British Malaya.
The poster targets soldiers of the British Indian Army with the memory of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.
Japanese invaders of Malaya airdropping propaganda condemning "British brutality" in the Empire, urging Indian soldiers to desert. Leaflets feature the "Amritsar Massacre" when British soldiers killed 400+ Indian civilians in 1919.
Sources/Refer for more info :-
Goodreads (World War II in cartoons)-
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/979238.World_War_II_in_Cartoons
WordPress (Sikhs in Shanghai) -
https://sikhsinshanghai.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/world-war-ii-pacific-war-propaganda/
The poster targets soldiers of the British Indian Army with the memory of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.
Japanese invaders of Malaya airdropping propaganda condemning "British brutality" in the Empire, urging Indian soldiers to desert. Leaflets feature the "Amritsar Massacre" when British soldiers killed 400+ Indian civilians in 1919.
Sources/Refer for more info :-
Goodreads (World War II in cartoons)-
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/979238.World_War_II_in_Cartoons
WordPress (Sikhs in Shanghai) -
https://sikhsinshanghai.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/world-war-ii-pacific-war-propaganda/