Isaiah Davis W7

Bury the Axis is a short animated film made in the UK and the US during WW2 and heavily depicts the Axis powers. This film starts by depicting the birth of Adolf Hitler from a Stork, he then immediately is shown wearing Nazi symbols and singing. He enters Russia, then immediately leaves, battered and injured. This could play on the stereotype that Russian people are violent and Unfriendly. The film then displays Hitler’s “duche” as an “animal” like a person coming out of a dog house, with him barking and proudly exclaiming his support for him, before getting back inside his dog House. While it was common for people to be “Othered” in American media by comparing them to animals, this depiction of Germany is less exaggerated than what we would see in another American cartoon like for example, American Menstrual shows. The film portrays Japanese people in an arguably more racist and stereotypical way. Representing them as snakes while the European characters have actual titles and introduce themselves as such, the Japanese man refers to himself as “the son of son am I” and speaks in a stereotypical Japanese-English accent, while singing about bombing people. The film presents the Axis powers as unintelligent groups of people with shallow motivations.