Ads - Part 62

Posters part 4

We continue our mini-series on ads in the form of posters featuring nude males.  Today, posters from the 1930s and 1940s.  Above, a poster for a Swiss spa, 1930s.

A 1931 falconry gathering in Split, Croatia.

An anti-Fascist poster from the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.

Poster for the British Empire Games held in Sydney, Australia in 1938.

World War II (1939-1945) brought a series of nude or partially nude U.S. posters.  Above, apparently this guy has been cleaned out at poker, literally losing his shirt (and everything else), but "You can't lose with a GI bond."

A World War II poster telling soldiers not to waste water.

A World War II poster from the U.S. Public Health Service.

A World War II poster from the War Department showing soldiers taking a shower.

We end with a 1943 pro-Nazi poster from German-occupied Norway, showing a happy family on a nude beach under the Nazis versus death under the Communists (symbolized by the red star).