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# "Vorwart Mit Gott!" (Forward with God!) This August 31, 1918 political cartoon by Charles Sarka satirizes German militarism during World War I's final months. The central figure appears to be a German military leader or Kaiser, depicted as a grotesque giant seated on a coffin labeled "GOTT" (God). Beneath him swarms a massive crowd of soldiers and civilians being driven forward like cannon fodder. The cartoon's title—German for "Forward with God!"—mocks the militaristic invocation of divine blessing for Germany's war effort. The coffin suggests the cartoon's dark message: that German leadership was sacrificing its people to a dead god, or that God itself had died through this mechanized slaughter. It's a scathing indictment of German imperial ambitions as the war neared its end.
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