{"title":"Cumhuriyet","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"italya-olaylari-events-in-italy-turkish-ww2-serio-comic-map-cemal-nadir-1944-p-8-006343","title":"İtalya Olayları. Events in Italy. Turkish WW2 serio-comic map. Cemal Nadir 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eİtalya Olayları [The events in Italy]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA highly detailed early-1944 anti-Axis satirical cartoon by Cemal Nadir Güler, Turkey’s most influential political caricaturist of the Second World War, commenting on the collapse of Fascist Italy and the disintegration of German power in the Mediterranean. Germany is represented by a Wehrmacht soldier under assault from the Italian Church and a second figure, likely intended to represent the Italian partisans. The Allied armies advancing through Italy are represented by a Tommy shaking his fists at the German soldier; he has the figures 5 and 8 tattooed on his muscular arms, representing the US 5th and British 8th Armies fighting their way up the peninsula in 1944. In the background, Fascists hang from gallows, reflecting the wave of summary executions by partisans. An Italian soldier struggles to remove the crown from the head of the King, alluding to the cotemporary debate over abolishing the monarchy and the discrediting of Victor Emmanuel III. The “heel” and “toe” of Italy are tied to the mainland with bundles of Allied money, alluding to AMGOT’s financial stabilisation of liberated southern Italy. On the horizon, German forces are shown being swept out of Albania. A superb and symbolically dense wartime image capturing the violent unravelling of Axis power in the Mediterranean.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51845518000475,"sku":"P-8-006343","price":360.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006343a.jpg?v=1764869788"},{"product_id":"yasasin-fransa-long-live-france-turkish-ww2-serio-comic-map-cemal-nadir-1944-p-8-006342","title":"Yaşasın Fransa! Long live France! Turkish WW2 serio-comic map. Cemal Nadir 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eYaşasın Fransa! [Long live France!]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA striking and theatrical wartime serio-comic cartoon map by Cemal Nadir Güler, published in Cumhuriyet on 10 February 1944, celebrating French resistance and the threat to the Nazi occupation of the country in the latter stages of the Second World War. Germany is represented by a swastika dominating the country, but under threat from French resistance (represented by a civilian woman with a revolver taking an axe to the Swastika, and a series of sabotage explosions of factories and bridges), while the United States, represented by Uncle Sam, and the British are both poised in boats offshore ready to invade. Italy appears as a tortured figure, gored by both the Allies and Germany. Petain appears crushed below the swastika. The Spanish look on. Rich in symbolism and executed with Nadir’s characteristic combination of humour and political clarity, this 1944 cartoon captures Allied optimism and Turkish disapproval of Nazi Germany. A vividly composed wartime map-cartoon from the most important political caricaturist of Republican Turkey.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51845518164315,"sku":"P-8-006342","price":360.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006342a.jpg?v=1764869790"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/cumhuriyet.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}