Symbolism In World War 2

In World War 2, American isn’t involved until the incident at Pearl Harbor. After the event at Pearl Harbor causing the death of many military men and women, America start to involve themselves into WW2. With the reason of taking revenge against the Japan, stop Germany to control the world, and spread democracy, many American journalist start to create propaganda to attract many America citizens to join the war. Journalist also attempt to persuade American citizen to spend their money on their property so the money could accumulate which turn into war fund, and strengthen the national defense so we could repel Germany in case they were able to conquer Europe. The pictures that I choose for this paper is the pictures that draw by Dr. Seuss which portray the Chancellor of Germany at that time, Adolf Hitler.
The propaganda draw by an American writer and illustrator name Dr. Seuss. The pictures that he draw portray leader of Germany in World War 2, Adolph Hitler, above him, the artist wrote :”Insure your home against Hitler!”, and below the picture, the artist wrote:” Buy war saving bond and stamp”. The artist does this because he wanted to let every American know the tyrant that cause WW2, and the most dangerous person on earth at that time, and by using the color black, it made a clear representation of evil, fear, power and …show more content…
Because the war is in Europe, the contemporary reader will only know the name of the leader of Germany is Hitler. As they focus on the pictures, they will notice the word above the man 's head that said:” Insure your home against Hitler”, and this would tell the audience that the man in this picture is Hitler himself, it will give the reader known that this evil man, in the pictures, is the cause of World War 2, the man whose invade Poland, and try to annihilate the