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Shows Germany as beaten but still big and solid enough to be dangerous British and French police Shows what cartoonist thinks the Treaty terms should do to Germany Devastation caused by war Large and solid (prisoner won’t escape) Deliberately shown as civilians (not army) Other pictures could be imported and used around the same template. GIVING HIM ROPE? German criminal (to Allied Police): Here, I say, stop! You’re hurting me! [Aside] If I only whine enough I may be able to wriggle out of this yet! Suggests cartoonist thinks Germany will try to worm out of responsibility for war

What can it tell us? What does it not tell us? P – purpose? A – autor? How useful is this source in finding out about the attitude towards Germany at Versailles? What can it tell us? What does it not tell us? P – purpose? A – autor? C – context? T – tone? Can you trust the source? Explain your answer!

Here, a story BOOK FORsmall children stereotypes a Jew as a degenerate pervert. Anti-Semitism came easily and naturally to children who had been brought up looking at this kind of picture.

German cartoon produced in 1919

An Australian recruitment poster during WW1

Our artillery hadn’t made any impact on those barbed-wire entanglements. The result was we never got anywhere near the Germans. Our lads were mown down. They were just simply slaughtered. You were either tied down by the shelling or the machine-guns and yet we kept at it, making no impact on the Germans at all. And those young OFFICERS, going ahead, they were picked off like flies. We tried to go over and it was just impossible. We were mown down. Memories of Corporal WH Shaw, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Source K A photograph from the Imperial War Museum collection showing thousands of men queuing on the beaches at Dunkirk .