Allied propaganda during World War I often charged the Germans with cutting off the hands of babies and women.  The Germans were accused of eating the hands and the Kaiser himself was depicted chopping off hands.  For more information see Arthur Ponsonby, Falsehood in Wartime: Propanganda Lies of the First World War.

• Anti-German Propaganda

• Germany Must Perish!

• Germany must be destroyed

• The Morgenthau Plan and the Problem of Policy Perversion

• Germany vs. Intellectual Freedom