This kinda makes me wonder how would war propaganda look like now, with political correctness and whatnot. Something tells me drawing the Japanese like that wouldn't pass.
I guess I'll never know until you guys declare war on China or something.
political cartoons are scant funded by the government and often go against the government. Just because it's drawn and political doesn't make it propaganda
I know I'm gonna get **** for this, but movies like American Sniper and Lone Survivor to a lesser extent could very easily qualify as propaganda. Sure, they're not directly funded by the government, but with how interconnected modern corporations and the government are, they might as well be. The movies have simplistic takes on the enemies, portraying them not so much as human beings with lives and struggles and motivations, and the Americans have a kind of gung ho "johnny freedom" feel about them once again, not nearly as much so in Lone Survivor, but still somewhat present . Certainly not so direct as in those days, but then, the war we're fighting isn't nearly as much of an "us vs bastards" war as WWII. I could even include certain modern movies about WWII, especially that pile of execrable garbage that was Pearl Harbor. Showing Americans as square-jawed, nearly invincible supermen and the enemies as gibbering morons.
Now, I return again to the point that they aren't nearly as overt, and certainly that purpose may not even be intentional, but they have similar effects just the same. Considering far more Americans go to movies than watch the news, though the news tactfully avoids the human side of enemy combatants as well. And certainly there are movies that go against this grain (Jarhead and Black Hawk Down come to mind) and go so far as being somewhat more accurate about modern conflicts.
I am by no means saying ISIL deserves a fair treatment, considering their wanton destruction of historical landmarks and stated intentions of genocide (wow weren't those things the Nazis did?) but other recent American conflicts have had much more of a sad bent to them.
The Nazis were mor eagainst Jews and the captialist and marxist systems supposedly brought forth by them, and in this poster they are criticising America for their (according to them) hypocrisy, condemning Germany for antisemtism, when they themselves had Jim Crow and lynching based on skin colour.
I don't think they were particularly against Jews, like the Nazi's were. Also, back then the KKK was something typical American and kind representative of their culture at the time. And that's just what they're portraying, "American culture is bad".
Nazis didn't hate blacks and other whites like the KKK of the time did. The KKK of the time was anti-immigration (I.e. Irish and Italians), anti-black, etc.
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Canada isn't going to allow this sort of propaganda to spread with its approval, no country is going to go to war and spread propaganda against their own allies. In fact the US did a lot of convincing of German/Irish Americans (a significant portion of the US population) to keep them from tanking the war effort. Pearl Harbor kinda helped.
It's part of the "axis" propaganda to demoralize Allied soldiers, probably distributed at the front. Notice there are two posters there that are anti-American, this one and the Australian one. Basically the Axis would grab something Americans would do (like friendly fire incidents, or in Aus the fact that the US soldiers were stationed in Australia, while Australians were sent to the Pacific front), and blow it out of proportion to try to cause division.
While I can't tell you how effective that was I can note one instance of friendly fire.
It's actually a political cartoon deriding 9th Air Force's ****** target acquisition and generally atrocious bombing practices that led to huge amounts of friendly fire. The allies dubbed it the American Luftwaffe for that reason.
Conversely, the German joke was "If British planes appear, we duck. If American planes come over, everyone ducks. And if the Luftwaffe appears, nobody ducks." By the time of the mainland Allied invasion of Europe, the Luftwaffe's numbers had been reduced to insignificance, between the defeat in the Battle for Britain, the constant losses in the Med and North Africa and the devastation on the Eastern Front.
I like this one, back when they were all friends united in one cause. Seeing all those countries (especially US and SU next to each other) firing those guns warms my hart.