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# "Another Hun Peace Angel" This September 1918 cartoon satirizes Germany's insincere peace overtures near World War I's end. An angel figure (representing Germany's "peace" proposal) descends with a trumpet, but the imagery reveals the deception: scattered below are instruments of war—weapons, destruction, and suffering labeled with references to German aggression (terms like "Lusitania" appear, likely referencing the 1915 sinking). On the right, an Allied soldier or leader stands amid devastation, seemingly skeptical of this "peace" offer. The cartoon's title mocks the German propaganda of offering peace while their actions contradicted it. "Hun" was dehumanizing wartime slang for Germans. The angel's false benevolence masks continued militarism—the core satirical point being that Germany's peace proposals were propaganda, not genuine.
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SEP 12 1Si0 ” Ba1soc2 - = 75 J U D G E Number 1926 7 10 Cents a Copy Entered at the Po e at New York as Jew Yi eine Published Weekly by Leslie. second-« ail matter New York, SepremBer 14, 1918 225 Pifth Avenue, New Awotner Hun Peace AnGrL (German) —“Peace on Earth, Good Will(iam II.) to Men.” comicbooks.com