Anti-German+Propaganda

media type="youtube" key="4iFnce-4e74" height="344" width="425" align="right"Thesis: The Americans despised the Germans because Anti-German Propaganda depicted Germans terribly. It showed them as being immortal. These pictures portrayed Germans as baby eaters and women killers.On occassion, the posters would refer to the Germans as "Huns".

The word "Hun" was a common belief that the Germans were decedents of the early Huns of the dark age. Germans were shown as barbarians in many posters. This would get Americans to think of the Germans as beasts and would want to enlist. In one of our pictures the German is depicted as a beast coming up and getting ready to kill the young boy. This would enrage Americans and soon the printers would go to colored printing. The posters would be colored, which was fairly new in this time. They would depict blood with a red color which would catch the readers eye. The blood would be all over the Germans hands, babies and women's clothes. By showing this they successfully had people join the army. The colored printers would but blood all over babies and women when a German solider was standing near them. Americans thought that Germans were blood thirsty for these innocent people. In posters below it shows the Germans getting ready to kill the young child that is cornered and helpless. Another picture shows the German as being a beast. Holding a women in a white dress. All she is trying to do is create peace and the beast is taking her away getting ready to kill her. This would lead to people as seeing Germans as immortal. They had no feelings or guilt for anyone and that they had to be killed. It wasn't like they were going to fight other people like their selves. They were traveling across seas to fight these immortal beasts. Music was also used, besides posters, to get word out about how evil the Germans were. Every house hold would have a piano and everyone would support the war through music. If you did sing along to the song some people would thing that you support the Germans. Here is an example of a song:

Don't know why I cannot blockade the sky Stormy Weather Since my ships and the German Planes Got together They're sinking all the time O blimey, they're sinking all the time Life is bare Gloom and Misery everywhere Stormy Weather Just cant keep my poor ships together they're sinking all the time When I walked into Norway The Germans came along and met me My hair has turned to grey now that the French are against me. All I do is call my Royal Navy for action to attack Frendch shilps in thier peaceful base. Can't go on: even my truest friends are gone Nasty Weather Just can't keep my poor self together I'm beaten all the time (2x)1








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