RAEMAEKERS Cartoons of WWI vol 2 - 107 Satrical Cartoons about events during WWI E-Book

Louis Raemaekers

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This is Vol. 2 of raemaeker's satrirical cartoons pf WWI. Herein are 107 more satirical cartoons from the cartoon master Louis Raemaeker which end off the second year of WWI. With so many atrocities committed by both sides, Raemakers was not short of material.One hundred years before WWI, Napoleon is reported to have said that the English caricaturist James Gillray "did more than all the armies in Europe to bring me down.”Likewise, during World War I, no cartoonist exercised more influence than Louis Raemaekers of Holland. Charged with "endangering Dutch neutrality," he fled to England. His satirical newspaper cartoons led the German Government to offer a 12,000 guilder (±US250,000 in 2014) reward for his capture, dead or alive. A German newspaper, summarizing the terms of peace Germany would exact after it won the war, declared that “Indemnity would be demanded for every one of Raemaekers' cartoons.”Raemaekers cartoons were also instrumental in fighting against deeply entrenched American isolationism. When, in 1917, the United States entered the war, Raemaekers embarked on a lecture tour of the USA and Canada, rallying the new allies for support and arguing the case for mobilisation against the German Empire. The Christian Science Monitor commented “From the outset his works revealed something more than the humorous or ironical power of the caricaturist; they showed that behind the mere pictorial comment on the war was a man who thought and wrought with deep and uncompromising conviction as to right and wrong.”All too often art critics, art historians, aestheticians, and others have dismissed cartoons and caricatures as silly — not serious — trivial, and irrelevant. Yet, as you will see with the cartoons in this first volume, here are cartoons and caricatures that, in retrospect, possibly had more effect on the German High Command and German populace than possibly a new  Allied offensive, giving weight to the adage “The Pen is Mightier than the Sword.” - if only pen and paper could have been used to greater effect in this, the Great War. 

Leseprobe

RAEMAEKERS’

CARTOON

HISTORY OF THE WAR

VOLUME TWOTHE SECOND TWELVE MONTHS OF WAR

COMPILED BYJ. MURRAY ALLISON

Editor of Raemaekers’ Cartoons, Kultur in Cartoons,The Century Edition de Luxe Raemaekers’ Cartoons, etc.

Originally Published by

THE CENTURY CO.

NEW YORK[1919]

Resurrected by

ABELA PUBLISHING

London

[2014]

Raemaeker’s Cartoon History

of the War Vol. 2

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2014

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CONTENTS

Foreword

VOLUME TWO

The Anniversary, August, 1915

King Albert's Answer To The Pope

A Stable Peace

Thrown To The Swine

The Martyred Nurse

The Yellow Book

U'S

Pallas Athene: "Has It Come To This?"

The Next To Be Kicked Out

September, 1914, And September, 1915

Idyllic Neutrality

What Should We Do Without Michael?

We Don't Understand This Loan Game

The German Loan

"Wounded First"

The Morning Paper:—"Great News"

Van Tromp And De Reuter

The Marshes Of Pinsk

"Cheer Up, Austria, You Have Germans And Bulgarians To Help You This Time"

Ferdinand, The Chameleon

Serbia. Autumn, 1915

October In Serbia

The Kaiser Counts The Bag

"The Entry Into Constantinople"

Go To Your Hereditary Enemy, Bulgaria

"They Bowed The Knee Before Him"

Driven From The Temple Of Humanity

The Old Serb

New Peace Offers

Ferdinand S'en Va T'en Guerre Ne Sait S'il Reviendra

The Voice Of The People

Truth

The Evacuation Of Gallipoli

Christmas, 1916

New Year's Feast Of Kultur

The Poilu

The Trials Of A Court Painter

Von Der Goltz Goes To The Promised Land

The Burial Of Private Walker

"Come And Be Happy At Potsdam"

Tom Thumb And The Giant

On The Way To Bagdad

The Holy War

The Kaiser: "Your Ruthlessness Has Failed, Tirpitz; I Must Pin My Faith To Count Zeppelin."

Gott Strafe England

William: "You Lead New Regiments Upon Verdun, Whilst I Weep Over The Losses Of The Old Ones."

"Nobody Sees Me, So I Can Always Deny It."

Pan Germanicus As Peace Maker

"We Have Only Come To See That The English Don't Threaten You."

Hohenzollern Madness

"My Son Lies Here, Where Are Yours?"

The Old Poilu

"German Chivalry On The Sea"

The Eternal Barrage

Von Bethmann-Hollweg's Peace Song

"Why, I Have Killed You Twice And You Dare To Come Back Again!"

"Mais Quand La Voix De Dieu L'appela Il Se Voyait Seul Sur La Terre Au Milieu De Fantomes Tristes Et Sans Nombre."

The Deportations From Lille

The Last Throw

Russia To France

The Death's Head Hussar At Verdun

Sir Judas Casement

Great Britain And Ireland

The Graves Of All His Hopes

"The Sussex"

"I Thought You Said You Were Too Proud To Fight!"

"Indeed, I Am The Most Humane Fellow In The World."

Von Tirpitz: "Well, My Dears, I'm Afraid You Will Have To Improve Your Manners—For A While At Least."

"Well, Mr. President, If You Insist, We Shall Try To Behave Like Gentlemen."

Gott Strafe Verdun

German Militarism On The Allies' Operating Table

Empire Day, 1916

The Spring Song

The German:

The Wandering Jew

Gratitude Of The Women Of France To The King Of Spain For The Tracing Of The Missing

The Bill

The Last Ride

Caged

The Battle Of Jutland

"At Last, Tirpitz, I May Tender My Imperial Thanks Publicly."

"We Had Almost Beaten The Boy When His Father Arrived And Then We Had To Run For Our Lives."

Der Tag

German Admiral: How Quiet It Must Be In Those English Harbors Blockaded By Our Fleet.

The Death Of Kitchener

Crown Prince: "We Must Have A Higher Pile To See Verdun, Father."

This Will Make William Jealous; It Beats His Nurse Cavell.

Summer Time, 1916—Five On A Bench

Civilisation: "What Is The Verdict."

To The End

The Confederates

"Bunkered"

"We Have Finished Off The Russians."

The Cossacks' Song Of Victory

Captain Fryatt

Before The Somme

The German Tango

The Wolf: "Is It Not Time To Stop All Further Bloodshed?"

The Deutschland Dispatch

Balaam And His Ass

Team Work

"I Hope, My Dear Friends And Allies, That I Have Been Able To Make You Feel Happy And Confident Again."

Another Nail In Hindenburg

"Seems To Be Neutral: Sink Him!"

Now Also The Axe Is Laid Unto The Root Of The Tree

The Spirit Of France

"Before The Fall"

Europe: "Am I Not Yet Sufficiently Civilised?"

FOREWORD

The second year of the war opened in the West with the enemy, although superior in man power and munitionment, pinned down to a defensive line from Belfort to the sea. The new armies of the British Empire were still being raised and trained, and neither England nor France had reached their zenith in the production of guns and munitions. The western front was to remain for a time comparatively inactive.

In the East the great Teutonic drive through Poland was still in progress, although the Russian armies had everywhere escaped envelopment, and their retreat was nearly at an end. Warsaw was occupied by the Germans early in August. It was a moment chosen by Germany to make an offer of separate peace to Russia. The enemy sought to gain by bribery what his armies had failed to accomplish in the field. The offer was rejected by Russia.

By October Germany's greatest military effort so far had failed and the Russian armies stood intact from the Bukovina to Riga.

The next great development in the history of the war was the entry of Bulgaria in October on the side of the Central Powers. Whilst great German and Austro-Hungarian forces crossed the Danube in the north the Bulgarians attacked Serbia on the flank. In a few weeks Serbia and Montenegro suffered the fate of Belgium and Luxemburg, the British and French troops not having arrived in time to render material aid to the Serbians. Greece, failing to live up to her treaty with Serbia, contributed to the defeat of that country and was for many months to form a menace to the allied troops who were making the port of Salonika their base in the Balkans.

In the meantime the western allies had taken the offensive in September, the French attacking in Champagne and the British in [Pg vii] Flanders. The attack was not driven home and no further offensive upon a large scale was to take place until July in the following year.

January saw Gallipoli evacuated by the Allies, releasing Turkish troops for service in Mesopotamia which was doubtless to have its effect in the fall of Kut and the capture of the garrison later on.

Late in February the great German offensive began at Verdun, an offensive which was to prove the most costly defeat of the German arms during the war. The Battle of Verdun continued for months and may be said to have been definitely lost by the Germans by the 1st of July.

Meanwhile the Russian armies in the Caucasus and Armenia had beaten the Turks in many engagements, taking amongst other towns the fortress of Erzerum with great numbers of prisoners and military stores. The other Russian armies in the north, reorganized and thoroughly equipped with munitionment, began in June their magnificent advance all along their line from Riga to the Carpathians.

The last month of the second year of the war witnessed the beginning of the "big push" in the west, the Russian advance in the east, the retreat of the Austrians in the Trentino, and the beginning of the Italians' successful thrust upon the Isonzo.

It is with these major military operations of the year with which Raemaekers' cartoons on the following pages deal.

He did not neglect to record, however, many of the minor happenings. The various and devious peace moves of the enemy did not escape his comment nor did the cold blooded murders of Nurse Cavell and Captain Fryatt. He has recorded also many examples of German Zeppelin Ruthlessness and German Piracy on the sea. Notable amongst the latter is the Sussex crime and its subsequent diplomatic developments, which were to play such an important part in America's entry into the war.

J. M. A.