Posted on 01/17/2011 8:28:12 AM PST by Rca2000
I am curious to know something. A LONG time ago, ca. fall of 1984 in my history class, in my histroy book there was a political cartoon. It showed that it came out in september of 1941 or 42 (am not sure which year--but I know it was one of those). As I recall,it showed a picture of some guy, in the back of a taxi or limo, and he said to the driver something like "take me to unter den linden", and the driver of the cab, told him, "yes sir'. But the driver had a SKULL for a head, with a cigarette hanging out of it, IIRC.
Does ANYONE here know the significance of that cartoon, and what it was referring to? It have wanted to know about that since then!!
Why do you think this has stuck in your brain for 27 years?
The personification of Death asking to be chauffeured to main offices of the Nazi government in Berlin. I.e., the leaders of the Reich have only death to look forward to.
There was another cartoon about the same era- that showed Adolf Hitler offering a handshake to the world holding out a bloody hand
The cartoon won all kinds of awards and pulitzer prizes I think (before they BECAME communist themselves)
I think it would be a nice one to photoshop...
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Unter den Linden was where many of the government buildings were located—sort of the Constitution Avenue of Berlin. Following WWII, it became the the main drag of East Berlin.
It had to do with a heavy metal rock band of the time known as “unter der lindens” linen was slang for shorts back then. the group dressed up in skull masks and stuff.
that explain it?
I walked along Unter den Linden in 1972. I remember it being quite desolate, with little traffic and many bombed-out buildings that still hadn’t been replaced more than a quarter century after the war.
Although not a particularly large part of the city, there was no part of Berlin better remembered than the Unter den Linden district in the former East. What a change this road had seen since the end of the Cold War. This alleyway had been long prior Berlin's most economically active, and hosts many great Prussian museums and monuments. Alas, under Communist rule, the Unter den Linden fell to virtually complete disrepair. The famous Brandenburg Gate, shown in the first photograph, stood tall at the road's west end, but for twenty-eight years such a photograph was not possible, for the infamous Berlin Wall crossed in front the gate. Pouring salt on the wounds were some horrific urbanization projects that were as thoughtless as they were aesthetically displeasing (see Berlin Gallery for examples).
(Basically, I guess the cartoon was stating the devastation that Communism did to this area of Germany and that the taxi and driver were representing communism and it's destruction while the passenger was representing the voters the countrymen willfully asking to be taken and given Communism. Just my take on it.
I’m guessing if the man getting into the cab was an American, it was demonstrating how conquering Germany was going to be paved with death and destruction.
Google WW II cartoons, propaganda. There’s a lot of them.
That would almost certainly be by Herbert Block of the Washington Post. Probably the last time he was ever on the right side of anything...
Just to be historically precise, WWII was NOT the fault of Governor Palin, the TEA party movement OR President Bush.
Thought that this needs to be clarified BEFORE obama or his SRM start down this path.
The DRIVER was the death’s head, not the passenger. The personification of death was driving, not asking to be driven somewhere.
I see. So then the entire import hangs upon who the passenger caricature was intended to be.
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