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Hadhā huwa al-nizhām al-jadīd ("This is the New World Order"). A rare example of anti-Hitler propaganda in Arabic produced, likely in Britain, during the North Africa campaign. We have traced no other copies or any other examples of Arabic pop-up satire from the Second World War. As the Arabic text displays grammatical features typical of the Tunisian colloquial, this pop-up was likely produced for the Tunisian campaign of 1942-43.The opening scene shows Hitler stealing food and wine from a family's dinner table, while in the pop-up scene he handles the loot to a German soldier who is walking out of a house. The text at rear denounces how the German "locusts" and their leader "the pig Hitler" - a phrase used in contemporary anti-Nazi European satire, here acquiring additional overtones within a Muslim context - stole food from all the countries they crossed, to feed themselves while letting the local people starve. It concludes stating that this is how the new system works: everything is carried out for the sole benefit of the Germans.

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