[WWII] Could someone kindly give me a brief bit of context behind this French Propaganda Poster? Thank you in advance.
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Also, the description, as background info about the poster, says that June 18, 1940, DeGaulle spoke to the French via BBC radio. This was a very important speech and marked the beginning of the French resistance, in most people's calculations. That's why he's tiny and there's lines coming out of his mouth on the fishhook--it's like a microphone symbol, and that's how most French knew of him, since the June 18 speech was the first of what turned out to be many broadcasts by him, lasting until the end of the war, and he was a major symbol of resistance. France had just fallen to the Nazis and DeGaulle had fled to England on June 15, 1940. At the time he was little known--as the descriptions mentions, it was not even known if he was a 2 or 3 star general. So the collaborators wanted to puncture the mystique surrounding DeGaulle and the excitement surrounding his speech by showing him as a tiny and inconsequential pawn of Churchill, the Jews, and the high bourgeoisie. He was often referred to at that point as "General Micro" [as in, General of the microphone/tiny general play on words] and most French didn't know what DeGaulle looked like until the end of the war. so the collaborationist cartoonists were trying to give him a silly image. The description also says that on November 11, 1940 [Armistice Day, the last day of World War I, which marked Germany's surrender to the French in 1918], young French patriots displayed two fishing rods, "deux gaules", which sounds like "DeGaulle", to signal their support of the head of the Free French.