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Drawn for the Ministry of Information in 1944 by Reginald Mount, a British cartoonist.

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Below is a table for you to answer the questions about this cartoon. Once you have finished your answers to see how you have done, press submit, and a set of answers will appear next to yours, which you can print out.

 
     

 


       
 

1. Who is the main figure?

  

2.How has he been drawn?

  

3.What is he carrying?

 

4.What is he standing on?

  

5.Explain why the cartoonist has drawn piles of corpses labelled Stalingrad and Tunisia?

  

"You can rely on my judgement - remember I was once a soldier of the Reich"

6. What does this caption mean?

  

7. What is the overall message of this cartoon?

 

8. How accurate is the impression of Hitler as a war leader given in this cartoon?

 

9. Evidence of what?

  
 
     

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