Hoo boy. The jingoism of the newspapers in the First World War can be a little hard to take. The dehumanizing of the enemy (Germany, and in particular, the Kaiser) was something else. You would think that he was the devil himself from the editorials, comics, and news stories. So this appeared very early in the war before the horrors were well known. People wrote the most eye-rolling, cringe-inducing poems about the noble struggle against the Hun and it was published in a full page in the Star Weekly, illustrated by Jim at the masthead.
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