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Credibility: Since this is a political cartoon, the idea for the piece was based off of the opinion of Dr. Seuss. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. But a succession of such cartoons at this time might very well do serious harm. Although there is, no surviving correspondence inreference to Low's cartoons of Hitler and the Nazis from 1938 until the outbreak of war in September 1939, there does appear to have been an increase in proprietorial interference as continued German territorial demands increased the likelihood of war. Wardell suggested, that Halifax might be more effective if he were to talk to Low face to face. For although Beaverbrook was usually oblivious to pressure from politicians over Low, he was prepared to intervene when the Prime Minister, to whom he had given his full support, complained of the damage the cartoonist was doing to an Anglo-German rapprochement. I believe that following this poster and many other posters, that the US Government and military gained more support in entering in to the was in Europe, which would have benefited economically by all the efforts on the Homefront to raise money and limit usage of things like gasoline and food to send to the troops overseas. Published by NEA Service, Inc. (10) LC-USZ62-127209. I rely on your kind co-operation in seeing that as far as the Evening Standard is concerned, nothing is published which is in the slightest degree likely to prove detrimental to our friendship with other nations.' In a speech on February 23, 1941, Mussolini blamed defeats in Libya on the fact that the British attacked before he was ready to launch his own offensive. Low's real target is not so much Hitler, as the weakness of League members to act against Hitler's unilateral action. Ink over graphite underdrawing with scraping out on layered paper. The Munich Agreement was signed by Hitler, Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, under the policy of Appeasement. What Was the Sudeten Crisis and Why Was it So Important? USA.gov, Herblock's History - Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium, Herblock's own history of the year--The worlds of 1940. [citation needed]. In fact, Neville Chamberlain, on one occasion, criticised Low in public. In Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel: A Biography (Random House, 1995; p 100), Judith and Neil Morgan recount the story of how Dr. Seuss and PM joined forces in 1941:. /Rotate 0 /FontBBox [ -166 -210 1076 952 ] Reproduction of original cartoon drawing. Low's humanitarian instincts and Liberal upbringing gave him a strong determination to oppose Hitler and everything he stood for. By doing so, Low may have possibly dissipated the real threat that Hitler offered to the peace of Europe, thus proving counter-productive, as Beaverbrook may have appreciated. << /op true trailer Authorship: This poster/political cartoon was created by Theodor Geisel, or better known as Dr. Seuss. We will send you the latest TV programmes, podcast episodes and articles, as well as exclusive offers from our shop and carefully selected partners. From ancient times to the present day, these furry friends have been by our side, helping us to win battles and fight wars. /ToUnicode 46 0 R When this cartoon was published, the German invasion of the Soviet Union was still more than a year in the future. Political cartoons drawn for the New York newspaper PM by author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel. Accordingly, I will address the topic of United States official policy of non-intervention right until the middle of the war for which Theodore, popularly known as Dr . If Low had had the opportunity of choosing a Nazi Leader to caricature, it would certainly not have been Hitler, but, in his words, a 'big dark scowling man'. and let slip the dogs of war. 0000008895 00000 n Kevin Spacey on his role as Frank Underwood in the Series House of Cards used the phrase as he began a political attack to undermine the power of the President of the United States and move forward on his silent plan to take control of the White House and the executive power. When he produced a 'Topical Budget' in April 1939 which depicted Hitler in a bullet-proof bottle and in a separate section showed a dog that gone mad after biting Hitler, it was considered unacceptable and refused publication. 519 667 556 871 722 760 648 0 685 648 574 722 611 926 0 648 611 0 0 0 0 0 0 Halifax subsequently met Wardell and asked him if he could not curb Low's stance towards the Nazi leader. These images have been digitized from the published versions of the . Consequently, the Nazis even tried, in 1937, to put pressure on the British Government to restrain Low from satirising Hitler in his cartoons. It is interesting to note that the cartoon, unacceptable for publication in Britain, appeared in the Ceylon Observer on 25th April 1939. Emboldened by the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 and wary of his new ally Germany, Stalin moved to extend his Eastern borders, annexing Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and part of Romania. 0000143080 00000 n 556 556 556 556 556 278 278 0 0 0 556 0 648 685 722 704 611 574 759 722 259 stream /OPM 1 So I did.'. Probably for the first time, a senior member of the British Government had found it necessary to personally put a cartoonist under pressure in order to tone down his work. /BaseFont /IPMBOV+HelveticaNeue-Roman They just make you mad, if you don't agree with them.'. /CA 1 114 Dogs Of War Cartoon Premium High Res Photos Browse 114 dogs of war cartoonstock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. As a citizen of the world I should not think it an improvement, but as a cartoonist I don't mind how soon Goebbels purges his friends and makes himself Public enemy No.1.'. /OPM 1 0000008322 00000 n The one-column portraits were donated by Low's daughters, Rachael Whear and Prudence Rowe-Evans in June 2005. In peacetime cartoonists are a diverse collection of individuals with their own styles and projects, but when the trumpets of war blow it is like unleashing the dogs of war. endobj It is important to remember that at this time, the US was making lots of money and lost no lives while being neutral and dealing with both the Allied and Axis forces. The way that Dr. Seuss satirically calls out the people who believed America should stay neutral and not get involved is pretty blatant in this poster. The Foreign Secretary explained to me that I was a factor that was going against peace.' /N 2 42 0 obj wartime dog and cat soldiers - dogs of war cartoon stock illustrations roman war dog with chain shirt - dogs of war cartoon stock illustrations This comic, from August 1944, depicts the ultimate failure of Hitlers ambitions in Europe, falling like a house of cards. The writing on the carpet is "Japanese World Power". As far as Low was concerned: 'Without relaxing the critical note, I played it in a less personal key. Low did not appreciate any editor, let alone a stand-in one, cautioning him over his selection and treatment of subject-matter for his cartoons. Why have Britains political cartoonists always been the best in the world? Anne Boleyn and Katherine of Aragon Brilliant Rivals, Hitler vs Stalin: The Battle for Stalingrad, How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Humanity, Hasdrubal Barca: How Hannibals Fight Against Rome Depended on His Brother, Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage, Bones in the Attic: The Forgotten Fallen of Waterloo, The Rise and Fall of Charles Ponzi: How a Pyramid Scheme Changed the Face of Finance Forever. 0000015044 00000 n Peter Pappas, "Shakespeare for All Time" blog. It not only feeds his vanity, but unfortunately it shows profitable returns in an awed world. /OP false /Length 124 /T1_1 47 0 R /T1_2 52 0 R /T1_3 56 0 R >> /XObject << /X0 61 0 R /X1 62 0 R Administrative / Biographical History Low was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 7 April 1891. Editorial cartoons were purchased by the Scott Trust in December 2006. endobj 2023 Getty Images. F. H. Townsend's famous cartoon for Punch 14 August 1914. Dogs of War! However, by depicting Hitler as a figure of fun, Low may have inadvertently, to Beaverbrook's possible relief, made him appear less threatening to those that saw him in his cartoons, compared to, say, other cartoonists. Low's hatred of fascism is beyond doubt, yet the cartoons of the thirties, in which he so often showed Hitler as a ludicrous, posturing and vain little fellow attended by a distinctly slow-witted, bruiser-like Mussolini, certainly did not strike alarm and despondency into his readers. Dogs of War: from the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award - Kindle edition by Tchaikovsky, Adrian. 44 0 obj He is known for his satirical work inThe Evening Standard, especially his depictions of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin, but also for his criticism of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlains policy of Appeasement toward Hitler. Halifax confirmed in a letter to the then British Ambassador in Berlin, Sir Neville Henderson that as far as cartoonists were concerned, Low seemed to be the most vitriolic: 'I am hoping to see the Daily Herald and Daily News controlling powers myself, but I haven't as yet devised any approach that is satisfactory to Low, who draws the pictures in the Evening Standard, and these I expect are the most troublesome of any.'. Low's intended target, however, was not Hitler himself, who was then comparatively obscure even in Germany, but the legendary First World War General, Erich Ludendorff, who was generally believed to have led the conspirators. The content is intended to serve as valuable evidence for analyzing and challenging the legacies of history both as it occurred and how it unfolds in the modern-day, rather than to perpetuate or endorse any discriminatory or offensive attitudes or acts. Low had a conference with Cudlipp over the problem of caricaturing Hitler and Mussolini as Hit and Muss and came up with the highly inventive idea of creating a composite dictator named Muzzler instead. Content: The content that is displayed in this cartoon is the isolationist ideals that many Americans had to stay out of the war completely because the country had seen what a world war could do to a country and how many lives could be lost (almost 117,000 US troops died in WWI). But his ventures in France, East Africa, North Africa, and particularly Greece met with crushing failure, and he required rescue by Nazi forces. On November 30, 1939, the Russians invaded, claiming Finnish forces had fired on Soviet troops. The cartoon was an allusion to the destruction of the Reichstagby fire earlier that year, when there had been evidence to show that the Nazis had used the incident as an excuse to eliminate their political opponents. 0000000017 00000 n Low began his career as a professional cartoonist with the Canterbury Times in 1910. Context: This poster was published on October 1, 1941. The cartoonist found that, as a subject for caricature, Hitler was clearly inferior compared to the other leading Nazis such as Hermann Goering and Josef Goebbels. Adolf Hitler was not a wolf and the characters are not human people. Purpose: The purpose of this poster was to call out the American isolationists in our country during the early stages of WWII. Minear says that Geisel came up to him after a lecture on the book, which resurfaced some 200 of Dr. Seuss's political cartoons, and expressed her surprise. Working on him, 1941. >> /SA true Some content in this collection includes images or language that may be discriminatory or offensive. Coupe: 'Far from tearing the mask from public figures and holding up a warning finger to the reader, the tendency is to represent serious political problems in humorous allegorical guise and to invite us to laugh at our political predicaments, thereby in a way robbing them of their reality, or at least cocooning us from the horror in a web of gallows' humour. In this gallery of cartoons, we take a look at the . The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. Other cartoonists did not have such a long-standing record.'. Germany and Italy would control Europe and Africa, Japan would control Asia, and the United States would control the Western Hemisphere. A cartoon in the satirical Kladderadatsch shows a young boy brandishing a sword, crying "Up, German brothers, the Huns are coming!". endobj This may have been directly due to Beaverbrook's visit to the Games, not wanting Low's cartoons to affect his personal relations with the Nazis whilst in Germany. /Subtype /Type1 "A Japanese assault on the Soviet Union in 1941-42, taking the Russians in the rear as they struggled to stem Hitler's invasion, might have yielded important rewards for the Axis. In November 1936, the editor, Percy Cudlipp, having no doubt confirmed with Beaverbrook, refused to publish 'THE JAW IS THE JAW OF MUSSO, BUT - '. Japan had not yet attacked Pearl Harbor, but the US was not set on sending in ground troops into Europe. [8] It satirises the cynicism which lay at the heart of the MolotovRibbentrop Pact, showing Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin bowing politely across the dead body of Poland, but nevertheless greeting each other respectively as "the scum of the earth, I believe?" /ArtBox [ 0 0 1224 792 ] Apart from the instantly recognisable forelock and Chaplinesque moustache, Hitler's overall features were weak. 0000021208 00000 n /ItalicAngle 0 0000002671 00000 n Today we look at a fellow who at least one historian termed "the dominant cartoonist of the western world." Enjoy! According to W.A. First World War propaganda, 'with note by Walter Emanuel'. Low did not see Hitler as others did, as some kind of mad man or evil genius. /Pages 36 0 R One of the principal problems faced by Roosevelt and Churchill was the enormous toll of shipping sunk by German submarines. Some of my background knowledge on this topic supports the idea that many isolationists had at this time was that the US was making a fortune off selling supplies and ammunition to both the Allied and Axis powers. As a result, Low devoted the space he had on the Evening Standard to make light of Hitler's plans and soon became a prophet of remarkable insight as events unfolded in the way Low continually predicted they would throughout the 1930s. >> "It represented the local authorities as lunatics because of their reluctance to remove certain trees that obstructed traffic." It was have his drawings published in other magazines and newspapers. Dr. Seuss Political Cartoons 1941-1943 10,657 views May 12, 2008 15 Dislike Share Save Linhasxoc 2 subscribers A slideshow of various Dr. Seuss political cartoons during the WWII era. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. Based on the original meaning of "dog" in its mechanical sense ("any of various usually simple mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening that consist of a spike, bar, or hook"),[10] the "dogs" are "let slip" as an act of releasing. Donate /Parent 36 0 R The magazine also was noted as not accepting advertising from large businesses to keep it purer. David Low was born in New Zealand, and began working as a cartoonist there at the Canterbury Times in 1910 at the age of 19. "[1], In a literal reading, "dogs" are the familiar animals, trained for warfare; "havoc" is a military order permitting the seizure of spoil after a victory and "let slip" is to release from the leash. From 1919 to 1927 Low worked at the London Star, which sympathised with his moderately left-wing views. Low depicted these events in one of his most famous cartoons, Rendezvous, first published in the Evening Standard on 20 September 1939. 0000001807 00000 n >> /Filter /FlateDecode /SMask /None Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Published by NEA Service, Inc. (154). Also it clearly shows the horrified and concerned look that the children and animal has. Here are 10 of his well-recognised anti-Nazi cartoons. /O 40 In an address to the Newspaper Society's annual dinner in May 1938, he appealed to provincial newspapers to refrain from indulging in over-critical comment concerning foreign personalities, and stated: 'Such criticism might do a great deal to embitter relations when we on our side are trying to improve them. /Resources << /ExtGState << /GS0 41 0 R /GS1 42 0 R >> /Font << /T1_0 43 0 R David Low is remembered as one of Britain's greatest cartoonists, and today his work can be seen on display at Westminster Hall. HdU{Ta O( h]F^.jT German Nazis have been particularly annoyed by criticisms in the British press, and especially by cartoons. So I said, "Very well, I don't want to be responsible for a world war. This poster was created solely to sway the opinion of the American people and for Seuss to be able to be able to express his political opinion on the USs early involvement in WWII. The message to me shows that people who were isolationist ideals did not care about people in Europe dying because they werent Americans. In a soliloquy, he reveals his intention to incite the crowd at Caesar's funeral to rise up against the assassins. We in England can't understand the violence of the reaction. [17][18], The term Dogs of War is used in the boardgame Warhammer as a colloquial for various mercenary groups selling their swords for loot, plunder, and adventure. A few months later, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and we entered the war in the Pacific. /op false /Subtype /Type1C During the "war in Europe" one of Herblock's most effective cartoons was this one, based on movie travelogues that ended with a farewell to the visiting country. RM PWPRB9 - An early political cartoon - Dogs of war -Russia's anxiety to control Balkan States and 'John Bull' on the fence advising of Britain's anxiety to preserve Turkey RM KWCWX0 - THIS MUST NOT BE! Sending forth another dove, May 13, 1941. Low ignored the warning and continued to deride the Nazi regime and Hitler's continual flagrant disregard of the Versailles Treaty. 'Yes,' he replied. /SA true The result of the meeting with Halifax, according to Wardell, was that 'Low treated things a little more gently.' 45 0 obj Accessibility | The Dogs of War, 1876. Taylor has said, 'a comic devil', than as a wicked or frightening monster, as he pointed out in 1940: 'No dictator is inconvenienced or even displeased by cartoons showing his terrible person stalking through blood and mud. Hughes was not impressed and apparently called Low a "bastard" to his face. Clifford K. Berryman drew for the Washington Post from 1890 until 1907, and then for the Evening Star from 1907 until his death in 1949. Low must have seen this as a backhanded compliment, for even though it had been an attempt to restrain him, he was now aware that his cartoons had really got to Hitler personally, and that the Nazis were going to considerable lengths to get him stopped. bNWX$o;(\rElNV+)\^3+Vd Hitler's Nazi party had just made substantial gains in the German elections of 1930 which resulted in them becoming the second largest party in the Reichstag. The Serbian wasp stings the Austrian mongrel. Mussolini, 1941. /Linearized 1 << So will you please, when you are planning your cartoons, bear in mind my anxiety on this score?'. Beaverbrook travelled to Germany in order to get the ban on his newspaper lifted, but the Nazis told him that the Evening Standard would remain banned as long as Low was it's cartoonist. The Nazis instituted programs glorifying motherhood, providing financial incentives for those with large families, even encouraging "Aryan"-looking young women to bear children out of wedlock. There is no factual information offered and statistical data arranged on the poster. Should pocket cartoons ever be considered in the same category as political ones? /MediaBox [ 0 0 1224 792 ] Emboldened by the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 and wary of his new ally Germany, Stalin moved to extend his Eastern borders, annexing Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and part of Romania. The Dogs Do Bark", c1914. He quickly moved to the bigger papers of Sydney, Australia. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. PM Magazine was a newly created magazine that promoted itself as the only daily picture magazine of its time. Mr. Stalin revolutionizes the drama, 1939. It was this event in 1933, which was blamed on communists so that Hitler could restrict civil liberties and institute a mass arrest of Communist Party members, that Low refers to in this cartoon. From the fourteenth century an unauthorised call to "havoc" during battle was punishable by death. There does not seem to be any factual information in the poster. Return to: Lesson Three- How to Connect This With Your Social Studies World War II Unit, Lesson Three- How to Connect This With Your Social Studies World War II Unit, https://knilt.arcc.albany.edu/index.php?title=Dr._Seuss_Political_Cartoon_Decoded&oldid=165283. Travelogue, 1940. As for putting Hitler in a bullet-proof bottleto protect him from his affectionate people, this might have been taken by some as an incitement to, or approval of, the actual assassination of the Nazi leader, especially as Beaverbrook had been for some time convinced that Hitler would be assassinated. When he arrived back in England he immediately contacted those newspapers whose journalists and cartoonists were causing offence to Hitler. Authorship: This poster/political cartoon was created by Theodor Geisel, or better known as Dr. Seuss. [11][12] His obituary in The Guardian described him as "the dominant cartoonist of the western world". Political cartoons drawn for the New York newspaper PM by author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel. 315 556 500 758 518 500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 278 Learn More. /OP true Goebbels on the other hand, is good to draw - dark, sharp lines. As part of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union had agreed on the division of Eastern Europe, and might have contemplated a similar division in the Middle East. Published by NEA Service, Inc. (12 a, b) LC-USZ62-127197 (12b). >> /Type /FontDescriptor There are people whose tempers are inflamed more by a cartoon than by any letterpress. This would have been distributed by stores and local shops where other magazines could be found, or sent to homes who were subscribers. His first work was published when he was only 11 years old. /LastChar 148 Please refer to the UC San Diego Librarys Historical Context and Cultural Sensitivity Statement for more information. /BM /Normal >> And I think this man is awful. << /Type /ExtGState /Info 37 0 R In the autumn of 1937, with tension in Europe mounting over the possibility of Hitler invading Austria, Cudlipp again felt that he had to warn Low to tone down his cartoons: 'You will see from the news that the state of Europe is extremely tense at the present time. /ID [] /Length 4340 0000001168 00000 n The figures with their backs to the carpet represent Britain, France and the US. 1. When he made demands on Finland, however, the Finns resisted. We will write a custom Term Paper on Analyzing the Political Cartoons of Dr. Seuss specifically for you. 0000019372 00000 n UC San Diego Librarys Historical Context and Cultural Sensitivity Statement. "[15], Sterling Archer misquotes the phrase before embarking on a rampage to find the chemotherapy drugs for his aforementioned breast cancer.[16]. The woman is shown smiling and content when she continues to read that it was foreign children who were chewed and spit out. 'During the period of the Olympic Games, especially, it is of vital importance that nothing should appear in English newspapers which might tend to prejudice international peace and, particularly, the good relations between all the countries now represented in Berlin. The exhibition does not include political cartoons by Dr. Seuss that were not published in PM. Halifax told Wardell: 'You cannot imagine the frenzy that these cartoons cause. His work attracted the attention of Henry Cadbury, the part owner of The Star, and Low moved to London in 1919, working for that paper until 1927, when he moved to the Evening Standard. The name was certainly intended as a pun to show how the authorities had unsuccessfully attempted to muzzle the cartoonist. Despite several attempts to censor him, Low fought an almost personal war against Hitler and the Nazis which was played out for all to see in the pages of the Evening Standard. 808 certified writers online. In fact, in relation to the two offending sections of the 'Topical Budget' someone, presumably the editor, had written 'HO' short, no doubt, for holdover. The main objective of Dr. Seuss was to isolate the isolationists and show to the public that by being isolationists, we are turning our heads to the gruesome genocide of millions of people in Europe. 0000009558 00000 n The words are based on those supposedly used by Henry Morton Stanley at his meeting with David Livingstone in 1871, and the dictators are shown raising their hats to one another in greeting similarly to the two explorers in artistic reconstructions of that earlier meeting. The year the Nazis took power in Germany, they burnt the Reichstag in Berlin. In a blatant attempt to gain American support for aggression by the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo-Axis, it called for a new world order that would carve out spheres of power. /Contents 60 0 R Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Mussolini were a gift for . In a letter to Low, Cudlipp wrote: 'We have talked over the ventriloquist cartoon very carefully, and have decided to hold it over for the present for this reason: We do not want at the present time to run what will seem to be a cartoonist's campaign against the dictators. Most of the messaged that are implied here is that the woman is playing the party of the isolationist and the scared children are the ones who are seeing and understanding the atrocities that are taking place. The first documented incident where Low was asked to tone down his depiction of Hitler and the Nazis was during the Berlin Olympics in July 1936. Interpretations: I think the interpretations of this poster would be quite clear. >> Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. The picture draws attention by having typical Dr. Seuss looking characters, which were popular at the time, as the main focus of the cartoon. With the advent of World War II, he hoped to emulate the military successes of his ally, Hitler. So the Foreign Secretary asked me to modify my criticism, as I say, in order that a better chance could be had for making friendly relations. << Low was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 7 April 1891. Low remained in the United Kingdom for the rest of his career. The son of chemist David Brown Low and Jane Caroline Flanagan, David Low was born in Dunedin on 7 April 1891, and attended primary school there. As well as the families in the US that they left behind and the many millions of people they helped and freed by their efforts. Low admitted to seeing very much of the artist in Hitler: "Hitler's political conceptions were the artist's perceptions, seen as shapes, laid on in wide sweeps, errors painted out and details left until later, the bold approach and no fumbling,". 40 0 obj I shall always remember Hitler, for instance, not as the majestic, monstrous myth of his propaganda build-up, but as the sissy who whined to the British Foreign Office about his dignity when I ran him for a while as a comic strip.'. From 1941-1943, Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, worked as the chief editorial cartoonist for the New York magazine PM, creating over 400 editorial cartoons. Hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and subscriber rewards. Michael Foot, who was Acting Editor on the Evening Standard from 1938, felt that Low's attacks on Hitler met with considerable success: 'Low contributed more than any other single figure and as a result changed the atmosphere in the way people saw Hitler. The Germans, by contrast, appear to have entered the war mainly for fear of Russia. /Ascent 952 David Low, a political cartoonist, depicts the Japanese occupation of China in the cartoon "The Red Carpet" for the British newspaper the Evening Standard (14 June 1935). At around the same time, the then Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, accepted an invitation from Goering to attend the International Sporting Exhibition in Berlin. [7], Along those lines, an alternative proposed meaning is that "the dogs of war" refers figuratively to the wild pack of soldiers "let slip" by war's breakdown of civilized behavior and/or their commanders' orders to wreak "havoc", i.e., rape, pillage, and plunder. 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