The Soldier at the Western Front – Propaganda War
Source 5: Destroy this mad brute
The American propaganda poster, that might as well have been an inspiration for “King Kong” from 1933, reflects the breach of international law by the German army at the beginning of the war. Swinging a club named “culture” it rapes the innocent virgin Belgium and threatens to attack the freedom of America after it had destructed Europe.
Propaganda poster by Harry Ryle Hopps (1917)
- Frank Kämpfer: „Destroy this mad brute“. Emotionale Mobilmachung in den USA 1917, in: Gerhard Paul (Hg.): Das Jahrhundert der Bilder, Band 1: 1900–1949, Göttingen 2009, S. 212-220.
