Barbarossa cartoon

• History
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Four questions you must answer when you analyze a cartoon:

1. What do you see? (elements & labels)
   
2. What do the elements symbolise?
3. What is the artist's message?
4. What is the artist's POV (point of view)?

Who is this?

one word

Who is this?

one word

What do you see at the
bottom right corner?

What do you see at
the bottom left corner?

What are Stalin and Hitler
seem to be
doing here?
(look only at this section)

Hitler stabs Stalin in the back.
What does this
act symbolise?
One word

Stalin drops his pipe.
What does it suggest that
he was smoking a pipe and
now he drops it?

What else is Stalin dropping?
And what does dropping
this document
symbolise?

What is the artist's message?

POV
To which side does the artist belong?

1. Germany + allies
2. Britain + allies
3. USSR