Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss is the illustrator of my picture. Dr. Seuss’s wartime cartoon showed discrimination against Jews and called attention to the early stages of the Holocaust. Seuss became one of the first cartoonist to suggest the intensity of the Holocaust publicly. He critized the brutality of polices of Hitler and Vichy leader Pierre Laval, a French Politician.
The cartoon depicts a forest filled with corpses hanging from trees. Each body has a sign hang on them with “Jew” printed on them. Hitler is pictured with an extra rope draped over his right arm underneath his swastika. This suggests he’s willing to kill and hang more Jews. Each Jew was malnourished and bald. Laval is beginning to show weakness, he is starting to adapt to the Nazi’s ideas and acts. Laval and Hitler are happily singing “Only God can make a tree to furnish sport for me and you.” Joyce Kilmer used “only God can make a tree” in one of her famous poems. Joyce Kilmer used the…show more content… German soldiers and people were lying and saying they were being “sent to work in the East.” Nazi propagandists convinced some Germans that the invasion of Poland and subsequent occupation policies were justified. They were shown videos of the camps with cafes and toys. They were shown healthy people with hair, not starved, in dirty clothes. Hitler and Laval were never upset over their actions. Seuss showed the truth to the public eye. I’ve seen many of Dr. Seuss’ anti-Nazi cartoons, the dangers of fascism must have haunted him.
I feel pain for all of the people who suffered during those years. They were treated like livestock. They soldiers didn’t care about them, no one did. They suffered in unlivable conditions, mentally, and physically abused. I could never think of forcing another human being to live that way. Hitler wanted to overrule everyone, the Jews didn’t do anything wrong to punish an entire religion that
