En svensk tiger

En svensk tiger (Swedish: [ɛn ˈsvɛnːsk ˈtǐːɡɛr]) was a slogan and an image that became part of a propaganda campaign in Sweden during World War II.

In Swedish, the word svensk can mean both the adjective "Swedish" and the noun "Swede" while tiger can mean either the noun for a tiger (the animal) or the present tense of the verb tiga ("to keep silent", or more colloquially to "keep one's mouth shut"), giving the poster the double meaning "a Swedish tiger" or "a Swede keeps silent".

[1] Almqvist died in 1972 and in 2002 the copyright of the poster/logo was transferred to Beredskapsmuseet [sv], a military readiness museum.

[3] After eleven years of legal battle, the Swedish Armed Forces, who had been using the image without permission, paid 700 000 SEK in damages to the copyright owners in 2008.

[4] In 2020, the Swedish satirist Aron Flam was prosecuted for copyright infringement after using a variant of the image in his book Det här är en svensk tiger (English: "This is a Swedish tiger").