Source: The Enemy: Windows on War
"This gruesome scene plays on human phobias about rats, eating
dead bodies to the bone. Both specimens here, Hitler to the top and the
diminutive Goebbels below, have vampire-like blood dripping from their
jaws. The fires of destruction rage in the background, and ruined
buildings are the detritus of Allied action. A poor unfortunate
German soldier gnawed to death must have died in his boots, bottom
left, and his rifle is thrown down, bottom right. The discarded German helmet and the words imply these are Germans
suffering at the hands of their own leader. Designed on the one hand to
capture the death and destruction of Hitler’s policy, this poster
plays on deep-seated feelings of revulsion and vengeance."
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