"Vhen der Fuehrer says, 'Ve ist der master race', / Ve heil! ( raspberry) Heil! ( raspberry) / Right in der Fuehrer's face! / Not to love der Fuehrer ist a great disgrace / So ve heil! ( raspberry) Heil! ( raspberry) / Right in der Fuehrer's face!" Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo, and/or Emperor Hirohito often make a cameo and are ridiculed. Typical trademarks of these cartoons that are usually spoofed: propaganda elements, racist caricatures, ample references to activities to help the war effort (i.e., Shout Outs to save scrap iron, conserve gasoline, buy war bonds, or grow a Victory Garden). The hideous crimes the Japanese committed throughout the war (and even earlier in their invasion of China) means that many whose relatives (and countries) suffered at their hands believe the Japanese shouldn't get to complain about anything bad that happened to Japan as a result (this extends, of course, to Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). and their realization that, no matter what awful things the Allied propaganda might have claimed about them up to then, Those Wacky Nazis were actually worse, with them committing acts of villainy that beggared the worst of nightmares. And even people with that knowledge often didn't know all the gory details, which only further enabled Bystander Syndrome. Plenty of people, including in the Allied leadership, already understood that the Nazis were massacring Jews and other "undesirables." But not everyone did, especially among the public outside the Reich. So imagine the shock of the general public when the Final Solution death camps were discovered note Or at least became more widely known. Of course, with The Holocaust now common knowledge, it's interesting how the racial policies of the Nazis were relatively rarely dwelt upon in those cartoons. While some wartimes have remained popular as period pieces, many of these are now considered controversial due to the offensive caricatures of Germans and (especially) Japanese (see Those Wacky Nazis and Yellow Peril, respectively). Many wartimes are explicit propaganda, while others make humorous jabs at conditions on the home front such as the rationing of fuels, materials, food products and consumer goods. The term Wartime Cartoon refers primarily to cartoons made or released in The Golden Age of Animation during World War II and having some specific reference to the war effort. Carl Giles engages in a little Self-Deprecation
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