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Background: These
World
War
II
era
cartoons
are
from
Lustige Blätter,
a
weekly
German
humor
magazine.
It
predated
the
Nazi
takeover,
but
adjusted
quite
nicely
to
the
new
era..
The
magazine
did
not
carry
caricatures,
even,
friendly
ones,
of
Hitler
or
other
Nazi
leaders.
There
were
many
caricatures
of
Winston
Churchill,
Franklin
Roosevelt,
and
Joseph
Stalin.
These
issues,
all
published
during
World
War
II,
contain
a
mixture
of
overt
propaganda
satirizing
enemy
countries
as
well
as
relatively
apolitical
jokes
and
cartoons.
There
is
also
a
lot
of
anti‐Semitic
material.
This
issue,
dated
just
after
the
Japanese
attacked
Pearl
Harbor,
is
captioned:
"The
Sword
of
the
Samurai.
It
defeated
the
big
mouth."
Source: Issue
#2/1942
The
caption:
"American
Candelabra."
The
anti‐
Semitic
theme
suggests
that
Roosevelt
is
serving
the
Jews.
Source: Issue
#27/1942
Background: These
World
War
II
era
cartoons
are
from
Lustige Blätter,
a
weekly
German
humor
magazine.
It
predated
the
Nazi
takeover,
but
adjusted
quite
nicely
to
the
new
era..
The
magazine
did
not
carry
caricatures,
even,
friendly
ones,
of
Hitler
or
other
Nazi
leaders.
There
were
many
caricatures
of
Winston
Churchill,
Franklin
Roosevelt,
and
Joseph
Stalin.
These
issues,
all
published
during
World
War
II,
contain
a
mixture
of
overt
propaganda
satirizing
enemy
countries
as
well
as
relatively
apolitical
jokes
and
cartoons.
There
is
also
a
lot
of
anti‐Semitic
material.
The
caption:
"One
eats
the
other
and
the
Jew
devours
them
all..."
The
cartoon
promotes
the
Nazi
claim
that
the
Jews
were
behind
World
War
II,
having
orchestrated
it
to
destroy
Nazi
Germany.
Source:
Issue
#29/1943
The
caption:
"His
way
to
'liberate'
Europe."
As
the
war
neared
its
end,
German
propaganda
presented
increasingly
grim
portraits
of
the
enemy.
Source:
Issue
#37/1944