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A 1944 Nazi propaganda poster titled "LIBERATORS", which perfectly epitomizes many perennially-recurring themes of anti-Americanism. Published in 1944 by the Dutch SS-Storm magazine that then belonged to a radical SS wing of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands.
The original colour version titled "Kultur-Terror", was made by the Norwegian Harald Damsleth [1] for Nasjonal Samling in 1943. The original size is 49x61 cm; 10,000 copies were printed. [2], [3]
Text contained in image: "Miss America", "Miss Victory", "Ku Klux Klan", "JITTERBUG - Triumph of Civilization", "World's Most Beautiful Leg". Symbols contained in image: reverse side of 48-star United States flag, WW2-era Army Air Corps roundel, dollar sign, Star of David. Dutch caption at bottom (proferred by European gullible "all-ears" dupe) reads: "De USA zullen de Europeesche Kultuur van den ondergang redden", meaning "The USA wants to save European culture from decline".
Some motifs contained in this poster:
- The decadence of beauty pageants (scantily-clad "Miss America" and "Miss Victory", "The World's Most Beautiful Leg") – or more generally, the putative sexual laxness of American women. The "Miss America" beauty pageant in Atlantic City had expanded during the war and was used to sell war bonds.[1]
- Gangsterism and gun violence (the arm of an escaped convict holding a submachine gun). Gangsterism had become a theme of anti-Americanism in the 1930s.[2]
- Anti-black violence (a lynching noose, a Ku Klux Klan hood). Lynching of blacks had attracted European denunciations by the 1890s.[3][4]
- General violence of American society, in addition to the above (boxing-glove which grasps the money-bag). The theme of a violent American frontier was well known in the 19th century.[5]
- Americans as Indian savages. As well as mockery of American genocide over Natives as well as land-theft, since it is a chieftain symbol here used as fashion trinket. ("Miss America" wears plains-Indian head-dress).
- The capitalism, pure materialism and commercialism of America, to the detriment of any spirit or soul (moneybag with "$" symbol). The materialism of America contrasted with the spiritual depth of European high culture is a common trope, especially in Scandinavia.[6]
- Anti-semitism appears in most Nazi images of America. A Jewish banker is seen behind the money.
- The presence of blacks in America equals its "mongrelization", adding undesirably "primitive" elements to American popular culture, and constituting a potential danger to the white race (strongly muscular arms of a black male, a stereotypically-caricatured black couple dancing the "Jitterbug – Triumph of Civilization" in birdcage, which is portrayed as a degraded animalistic ritual). The degradation of culture, especially through miscegenation, resonated with European anxieties, especially in Germany.[7]
- Decadence of American popular culture, and its pernicious influence on the rest of the world (dancing of jitterbug, hand holds phonograph record, figure of a European gullible "all-ears" dupe in lower foreground). The growing popularity of American music and dancing among young people had ignited a "moral panic" among conservative Europeans.[8]
- Indiscriminate U.S. military violence (bloodied bomb for foot, metal legs, military aircraft wings), threatening the European cultural landmarks at lower right. The terror-bombing of cities was started at the very outset of war by the Nazis against Poland.
- Hence the suggested falsity of American claims to be "Liberators" (the Liberator was also the name of a U.S. bomber plane).
- Nazis denounced American jingoism and war fervor (a business-suited arm literally "beating the drum" of militarism, "Miss Victory" and her drum-majorette cap and boots).[9]
- The malevolent influence of American Freemasons (Masonic apron descending from drum) was a theme among conservative Catholics, as in Spain.[10]
- Demonization of national symbols of the United States ("Miss Victory" waves the reverse side of 48-star U.S. flag, and the WW2-era Army Air Corps roundel – of small red disk within white star on large blue disk – is shown on one of the wings).
- ^ Susan Dworkin (1999). Miss America, 1945: Bess Myerson and the Year That Changed Our Lives. Newmarket Press. pp. 97–98.
- ^ Philippe Roger (2005). The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism. U. of Chicago Press. p. 346.
- ^ Noralee Frankel; Nancy Schrom Dye (1991). Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era. University Press of Kentucky. p. 156.
- ^ Alexander Stephan (2006). The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanization After 1945. Berghahn Books. p. 104.
- ^ Jason Pierce (2008). Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West. ProQuest. p. 91.
- ^ Thomas Ekman Jørgensen (2008). Transformations and Crises: The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956–1980. Berghahn Books. pp. 66–67.
- ^ Frank Trommler; Elliott Shore (2001). The German-American Encounter: Conflict and Cooperation Between Two Cultures, 1800–2000. Berghahn Books. p. 275.
- ^ Dutch Culture in a European Perspective: 1950, prosperity and welfare. 4. Uitgeverij Van Gorcum. 2004. p. 406.
- ^ Samuel D. G. Heath (2009). The American Poet: Weedpatch Gazette for 2003. iUniverse. p. 132.
- ^ Paul Preston (1994). Franco: a biography. BasicBooks. p. 324.
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