This arresting image by Leopoldo Méndez was featured on the cover of the October 1942 issue of the Mexico City-based journal Freies Deutschland/Alemania Libre. The ax-wielding protagonist—personifying the people’s resistance—takes aim at a cowering Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), whose beastly arms strangle two innocent babies. Hitler’s allies, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) and Japanese General Tōjō Hideki (1884–1948), hide behind him as they are all chased by armies of soldiers and farmers carrying pitchforks and scythes. Consequent editions of the work were printed with the title Homage to the Heroic Army of Yugoslavian Guerrillas (Homenaje al heroico ejército de guerrilleros yugoeslavos) (see M.2003.92.6), and the caps worn by the rushing soldiers on the left recall those worn by Yugoslavian troops. However, the work’s allegorical meaning expands its scope beyond one specific location: the hero emerges from the masses—los pueblos—to reclaim freedom for all from fascism and injustice.