Anti-American caricatures in Nazi Germany
[citation needed] The use of caricatures was a popular method within the party when pursuing their campaign against the United States, in particular its then-President Franklin D.
Although his style is reported to have changed throughout his years of work, his caricatures always depicted Jews as the Nazi stereotype: short, fat, ugly, unshaven, drooling, sexually perverted, bent-nosed and with pig like eyes.
This shows how caricatures worked to the advantage of the Nazi party, allowing them to portray what they wanted in a way which photographs could not.
[1] There were several events subsequent to Hitler coming into power which created the relationship which led to the hostile propaganda between Germany and America.
On March 27, protest rallies occurred in New York; Chicago; Boston; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Cleveland and 70 other locations.
The Nazi party denounced this as ‘slander' generated by Jews of German origin and announced a campaign of sharp countermeasures against the attacks.
Members of the group attended the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin where leader Fritz Julius Kuhn was photographed with Hitler.
In 1935 when the Wisconsin Federation of German-American societies voted to ban displays of the swastika at cultural events, members of the Bund threatened anti-Nazi delegates; one of many examples of their attempts to counteract 'Anti-German' movement.
[5] Themes in Nazi propaganda aimed at America revolved largely around the idea that the United States faced a 'lack of unity.
This is an example of the theme discussed earlier about the Nazi party viewing America as a nation whose people did not have the ability to appreciate European culture.
Nazi propagandists also sometimes depicted President Roosevelt as a gangster, and later in their Anti-American campaign suggested in one cartoon that he deserved to be executed.
During the early years of Hitler being in office, he saw Jews as 'an element alien to the German nation' and he saw them as the main cause for all of Germany's problems.
This was a popular topic for propaganda in the Nazi party and appeared in several other cartoons and caricatures on magazine covers.
Another popular theme in Nazi propaganda against the United States was that of President Roosevelt exploiting Britain.
The fact that the Nazi propagandists portray Roosevelt as wanting to go to war is also helpful to their propaganda campaign at home.
The main task of Nazi propaganda, both at home and abroad was to reassure the general public, alarmed at the possibility that Hitler meant war.
One shows a loud, steam-blowing train named "Roosevelt" and reads 'Well, Stalin, if noise were power the machine wouldn't be bad!'
