Germanophobic

The rapid West German rise to become Europe's most successful economy in the 1950s and 1960s, overtaking the far less dynamic British performance was again the pretext for media provocation of germanophobic emotions.

In Estonia and Latvia, Stalinism confronted medieval Hanseatic cities for the first time, and these clearly belonged to the German sphere of architectural influence. After the war, the Soviet Union was a completely germanophobic society, whose propaganda continually painted German fascists as enemies who were the root of all evil.

As understandable as his annoyance about this malign misuse of his sketch may be, both ways of interpreting his caricature remain open, one being undeniably germanophobic.