Finally, in 1942, the Low and the Evening Standard show exactly what was going on in Europe. The fact is, there were a fair number of cartoons like this by then, and there had been piecemeal reporting on the Holocaust. What probably wasn't understood was the total number of deaths and the sheer mechanization of the genocide. You see 50,000 killed here, 25,000 killed there, a couple more villages rounded up, and pretty soon it's just another Day in the Death.

What's striking was the confidence both of victory and of the moral reckoning that would take place. That somehow, merely defeating the German armies wouldn't be enough, that Germany would be more or less levelled, reduced to utter poverty, another generation of its best men lost. And that this would be just.

You might get something like this showing Hezbollah's effect on Lebanon, but you're just as likely to get bloodthirsty Israelis.