http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ww2_poster_oct0404.jpg
2007-04-04 17:39:10 · 6 answers · asked by pargaparga 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
This one refers to Hitlers "Panzer's" (tanks-pants get it)? All we need do is keep firing. (Keep up the fight)!
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2007-04-04 17:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The significance of this propaganda poster is - it belittles the once "mighty" Adolf Hitler, the leader of the "One-thousand-year Reich" as being caught with his pants (the pun, or play on words, here is "pants for "panzers") down - or unprepared. The best way to catch the fool with his pants down was to take a more active role in war production - such as the production of arms and tanks back at home in a factory. Even if an American Sherman tank was inferior to a German (Tiger or Panther) "panzer", the production of larger numbers of these tanks than the Germans could produce would be telling on the battlefield. Note in the poster the wrecked panzers at the fool's feet.
Propaganda posters were used to inspired the workers back home to "give their all" in order to speed up the war effort and defeat the Axis powers in Europe and Asia. I would say all those men and women who did certainly did a good job!!
Thanks for posting this cute propaganda poster!
2007-04-04 17:42:28 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's a pun on "caught with your pants down", combined with Nazi tanks, which were called Panzers.
Looks like a factory motivation poster, urging ammo production (the "keep 'em firing" part of the poster).
2007-04-04 17:44:55 · answer #3 · answered by The Avatar 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it serves to raise moral among those fighting against Germany at the time by making fun of Hitler and Nazi Germany, showing us both them and their ideas are ridiculous, and also by showing that no matter how hard they try to present themselves as tough, they too have a soft side and they will be diffeated.
i dont know anything about the tanks tho
2007-04-04 17:48:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
boosts the morale of the allied troops. It makes hitler look more comical and human then the monstrous dictator that he is. And, there could be a hidden message to attack his soft spots where his tanks are away.
2007-04-04 17:44:01 · answer #5 · answered by DaDude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To motivate the factory workers to produce ammunition as fast as possible.
2007-04-04 17:49:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋