The Second World War in Cartoons

Explores how political cartoons used satire, humor, and caricature to depict enemies, leaders, and pivotal wartime events.

Humour is a vital ingredient for the morale of a nation at war. From Britain’s John Bull mocking a diminutive Napoleon carving up the world, the caricatures of a bombastic Kaiser in the First World War, to an often demented looking Hitler, cartoons have not only portrayed the enemy in a satirical light but have raised a smile in the darkest of times.

Self-depreciating hum...