This poster was part of the work done by the Norwegian artist Harald Damsleth and his advertising agency, Heralden, undertaken for the extreme right-wing administration of Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945) in Norway during World War II. From the time Nazi troops seized control of most of Norway in April 1945, Quisling’s regime had aligned itself with Germany—and ultimately the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan—against the Allies, France and Britain. After France was overrun and capitulated to the Germans on June 25, 1940, and England had fended off Hitler’s Reich for over a year, the Soviet Union was attacked by German forces in Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941.