Question

Look at the image provided, and read the text on it. In an essay, discuss how it may have been used as a tool of propaganda during World War I. Think through and write about who might have published it, what they were trying to use it for, and what impact it may have had on the people viewing and reading it. Carefully consider what is going on in the poster and what kind of bias is involved. How do the images impact you? How does the text impact you? How might the image and text shape the way the French people would think of the German people (the Huns are the Germans)? How might the French government want the French people to think of Germans, in light of German nationalism? Do you think that still impacts people today?

Answer 1

The French has published the poster to make people believe bad things about the Germans. They show a picture of a German burning a building down. I believe that the German burning a building down is kind of understandable to the French, but not all the German are bad. The French are trying to let people believe that German people are the worst. The text states some true facts, but they don't need to have spread around the world.

The French government wants the public to think badly of the Germans. Some people today still are unsure about Germans. Today I believe that Germans are now better than then. I think Hitlar had influenced them about how bad some people were. This poster has many good reasons, but they also have bad reasons. ( I am part german so I know this isn't true no more)