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World war toons commercialo2/21/2024 ![]() ![]() 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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