‘Mummy’s favourite’. On 1 September 1951, in the satirical East German magazine Frischer Wind, cartoonist Kurt Poltiniak condemns the United States’ support for West German rearmament. US President Harry Truman is depicted as a devoted mother caring for her youngest, the Federal Republic of Germany, who is already showing signs of remilitarisation (the helmet and boots). From left to right, other European figures are portrayed as squabbling children trying to win the favour of the American ‘mother’: Spanish dictator Franco, Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito, General Charles de Gaulle and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Hanging on the wall is a portrait of Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, who welcomes the revival of a militaristic Germany.