The illustrations are both drawn wearing Nazi uniforms however, my prior knowledge of Kristallnacht informs me that the offenders of Kristallnacht were SA and SS troops wearing a guise of civilian clothing. The illustrators perhaps felt that drawing that, would not be as effective as drawing them in civilian clothing as it would not have been as blatant and would not necessarily show the intentions of the cartoon; the illustrators were chiding the Nazis and wanted other people to share their views on the Nazis.
Source F was published in Russia and at the time the government was communist which would have resulted in the cartoon being influenced by the government as it would have had to approve of the cartoon. The image of Tsar Nicholas II and the message he is holding suggests that the Russians were trying to intimidate the Nazis and insinuates that like they Murdered Tsar Nicholas II they will stop the Nazis as well.
In contrast Source G is merely commenting on the situation without the hidden agenda which the communists had.
In source G the woman symbolizes the German people ipso facto she is tied up implying that the illustrator thinks the German public had nothing to do with it. Due to the oppressive nature of the Nazis and the fact that any Jew sympathy provoked outrage from the Nazis shows they couldn’t have done anything to stop the Nazis or speak out against them because of their fear of the government. The illustrator appears to be sympathetic towards the German public. Furthermore, the woman is shown with a sword and shield a common image associated with justice suggesting that justice is being prevented and not being done. This is dissimilar to source F as source F suggests that justice will come and that the Russians will be the ones to enforce it.
In source F the Nazi has a “swag bag” and has many expensive looking watches dangling from his pocket suggesting that the Nazis’ motive for attacking the Jews was materialistic This is exemplified by the fact that the Nazis took money from the Jews by imposing unjust fines on the Jewish people for the damage that the Nazis inflicted.
The sources both criticize the Nazis; the Nazis are brutal, violent and unjust; the sources also portray a similar message; the message portrayed in both sources is the Nazis were the offenders of the atrocity that was Kristallnacht. However, the sources have different motives; there is an implication of an ulterior motive in source F whereas source G appears to only be commenting on the subject and chiding the Nazis. Both sources have interesting outlooks on Kristallnacht and why it happened however, neither source mentions the real motive behind Kristallnacht which was Goebbels trying to get back on good terms with Hitler; this was unbeknownst to the artists at the time.
