W.A. Coupe

Bismarck and the Cartoonists

W.A. Coupe explores the polarised opinions aroused by the 'Iron Chancellor', as revealed in the German press.

Published September 16 2001

Cartoons of the Third Reich

W.A. Coupe looks at ways in which the Nazis employed political cartoons in their armoury of propaganda techniques for imparting their message to the German people.

Published August 31 1998

The Face of the Ruling Class and others

by George Grosz

Published January 1 1985

The Nazi Gutter Press

W.A. Coupe on a tabloid paper as a microcosm of Weimar Germany

Published March 1 1983

Adolf Hitler and the Cartoonists

W.A. Coupe argues that German cartoonists ridiculed Hitler as a Chaplinesque little man, so it was easy not to take him seriously – until it was too late.

Published January 1 1983

German Cartoonists and the Peace of Versailles

German cartoonists, explains W.A. Coupe, told in stark visual language of the growing bitterness felt by their countrymen at the terms of the 1919 Peace Treaty.

Published January 1 1982

Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Cartoonists

Professor W. A. Coupe suggests, on the basis of the popular cartoon of the period, that the Emperor's person was the object of sustained criticism which seemed to augur well for the future political development of Germany.

Published November 1 1980