‘Twenty years later. “Now, dear wolf, you’re welcome. And of course you can bite those nasty Algerians!”’ In September 1959, in the satirical East German magazine Eulenspiegel, cartoonist Kurt Poltiniak uses the tale of Little Red Riding Hood to harshly criticise the dangerous rapprochement between France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Twenty years after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the start of the Second World War, General de Gaulle, depicted as Little Red Riding Hood wearing the Phrygian cap associated with Marianne, welcomes the new friendship with his partner from across the Rhine, portrayed as a wolf with sharpened teeth wearing the Iron Cross (a German military medal) and carrying a helmet containing a rocket. Poltiniak deplores an unholy alliance which in reality is serving France’s designs in Algeria and contributing to the revival of a militaristic West Germany.