En svensk tiger becomes a wartime vigilance icon
Bertil Almqvist's 1941 yellow-and-blue tiger became an iconic image of Sweden's wartime vigilance campaign, linking culture, silence, security, and public duty.
Bertil Almqvist’s yellow-and-blue tiger was created in 1941 for a wartime vigilance campaign that encouraged citizens to stay discreet during the Second World War.
The image matters because it condensed wartime Sweden’s public culture into one symbol: civic duty, security anxiety, national branding, and the demand to keep silent.