Did You Know Which Photograph Is the Most Successfull Propaganda Pieces of All Time?

"Bloody Saturday" is the name of a black-and-white photograph that was published widely
in September–October 1937 and in less than a month had been seen by more than 136 million as per Life magazine estimate.

Photograph became known as a cultural icon demonstrating Japanese wartime atrocities in China. Taken a few minutes after a Japanese air attack on civilians during the Battle of Shanghai, Hearst Corporation photographer H. S. "Newsreel" Wong, also known as Wong Hai-Sheng or Wang Xiaoting, did not discover the identity or even the sex of the injured child, whose mother lay dead nearby. One of the most memorable war photographs ever published, and perhaps the most famous newsreel scene of the 1930s. the image stimulated an outpouring of western anger against Japanese violence in China. Journalist Harold Isaacs called the iconic image "one of the most successful 'propaganda' pieces of all time".

This terrified baby was almost the only human being left alive in Shanghai's South Station after brutal Japanese bombing. China, August 28, 1937.
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Effects of this photo

• The image became one of the most influential photos in stirring anti-Japanese feeling in the United States. A "tidal wave of sympathy" poured out from America to China, and the image was widely
  reproduced to elicit donations for Chinese relief efforts.

• Catalyzed by the image, the U.S., the United Kingdom and France protested Japanese bombing of Chinese civilians in open cities.

• Senator George W. Norris was influenced by the image, being convinced to abandon his longtime stance of isolationism and non-interventionism—he railed against the Japanese
  as "disgraceful, ignoble, barbarous, and cruel, even beyond the power of language to describe."

• Americans used terms such as "butchers" and "murderers" against the Japanese.

• Subsequent to Shanghai's surrender, IJN Admiral Koichi Shiozawa said to a reporter from The New York Times at a cocktail party; "I see your American newspapers have nicknamed me the Babykiller."

• The image was voted by Life readers as one of ten "Pictures of the Year" for 1937.