Cartoon by Mitelberg on the dangers of the Schuman Plan (1953)

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‘The Schuman plan to restore German militarism’. In 1953, in the satirical East German magazine Frischer Wind, French cartoonist Tim (Louis Mitelberg) criticises the dangers of the Schuman Plan, which encourages a revival of West German militarism. On the left, the face of French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, depicted as a crane, is using French coal and iron ore to feed the military–industrial complex of the Federal Republic of Germany, symbolised by a Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that is half-man, half-machine, wearing a Prussian helmet with a skull and crossbones.

Source and copyright

Source: TIM (Louis Mitelberg). "Schumans Plan der Wiederherstellung des deutschen Militarismus" dans Frischer Wind. Berlin: Allgemeiner Deutscher Verlag. 8/1953, p.8.

Copyright: (c) Mitelberg, Adagp

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Cartoon by Mitelberg on the dangers of the Schuman Plan (1953)