The British Cartoon about the re-occupation of the Rhineland.1936 the GOOSE-STEP does any one know a website where i can find out more information on this image please..thankyoo it would help! 
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The British Cartoon about the re-occupation of the Rhineland.1936 the GOOSE-STEP does any one know a website where i can find out more information on this image please..thankyoo it would help!
The goose represents the German army marching into the Rhneland in 1936.
There is a simple explanation of the cartoon on this site: http://www.geocities.com/larwilson2001/germany.htm
There s a good image of the picture on this site - http://www.education.gpg.gov.za/matricinfo...50321D(eng).doc - where you can see thegoose trampling on the Locarno Treaty (the cartoonist was saying that Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland broke thterms of the treaty), and carrying in its mouth a label saying 'Pax Germanica' (the 'German Peace'). This is an allusion to the 'Pax Romana' - the peace brougt to Europe by the Roman Empire - it is comparing unfavourably the 'peace' brought by German militarism to that brought by the Roman Empire.
Ernest Howard Shepard of course is the man who drew the illustrations for Kenneth Grahame and A A Milne for The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. But he was also a politicla cartoonist and this is regarded as his best (and funniest) political comment.
There is a simple explanation of the cartoon on this site: http://www.geocities.com/larwilson2001/germany.htm
There s a good image of the picture on this site - http://www.education.gpg.gov.za/matricinfo...50321D(eng).doc - where you can see thegoose trampling on the Locarno Treaty (the cartoonist was saying that Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland broke thterms of the treaty), and carrying in its mouth a label saying 'Pax Germanica' (the 'German Peace'). This is an allusion to the 'Pax Romana' - the peace brougt to Europe by the Roman Empire - it is comparing unfavourably the 'peace' brought by German militarism to that brought by the Roman Empire.
Ernest Howard Shepard of course is the man who drew the illustrations for Kenneth Grahame and A A Milne for The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. But he was also a politicla cartoonist and this is regarded as his best (and funniest) political comment.
QUOTE (MrJohnDClare @ Sep 5 2007, 08:47 PM) 
The goose represents the German army marching into the Rhneland in 1936.
There is a simple explanation of the cartoon on this site: http://www.geocities.com/larwilson2001/germany.htm
There s a good image of the picture on this site - http://www.education.gpg.gov.za/matricinfo...50321D(eng).doc - where you can see thegoose trampling on the Locarno Treaty (the cartoonist was saying that Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland broke thterms of the treaty), and carrying in its mouth a label saying 'Pax Germanica' (the 'German Peace'). This is an allusion to the 'Pax Romana' - the peace brougt to Europe by the Roman Empire - it is comparing unfavourably the 'peace' brought by German militarism to that brought by the Roman Empire.
Ernest Howard Shepard of course is the man who drew the illustrations for Kenneth Grahame and A A Milne for The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. But he was also a politicla cartoonist and this is regarded as his best (and funniest) political comment.
There is a simple explanation of the cartoon on this site: http://www.geocities.com/larwilson2001/germany.htm
There s a good image of the picture on this site - http://www.education.gpg.gov.za/matricinfo...50321D(eng).doc - where you can see thegoose trampling on the Locarno Treaty (the cartoonist was saying that Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland broke thterms of the treaty), and carrying in its mouth a label saying 'Pax Germanica' (the 'German Peace'). This is an allusion to the 'Pax Romana' - the peace brougt to Europe by the Roman Empire - it is comparing unfavourably the 'peace' brought by German militarism to that brought by the Roman Empire.
Ernest Howard Shepard of course is the man who drew the illustrations for Kenneth Grahame and A A Milne for The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. But he was also a politicla cartoonist and this is regarded as his best (and funniest) political comment.
this link isn't working
are there any other websites with help on this or any other advice?
especially regarding the equipment the goose is carrying?
thanks
Both links are working fine.
The military equipment is not meant to be accurately portrayed - there is a bayonet, and a rilfe, and a couple of machine guns.
The key is that he is armed to the teeth - this is a military operation.
Because he is armed, it is meant to show that even though he comes bearing peace, his real motive will bring war again to France. This is probably a warning against following appeasement as Hitler says one thing and does another. . .
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