ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how the ape whose features were used to caricature a number of feared racial and immigrant groups in America was one way to channel domestic fears and angers toward an international enemy without obviously vilifying the German Americans and the Anglo-Saxon Teutonic heritage. Rather than presenting an exaggerated depiction of the German enemy inspired by stereotypes of the German American, it seems that Hopps deliberately sought to produce an image that diverged from those stereotypes. The poster makers of World War I had no high artistic tradition of representing apes on which they could base their work. The intertwining issues of miscegenation, white Western masculinity, and the German enemy were implicit in the configuration of rape in the Tarzan novels. The primal, savage instincts to rape and kill reside in both Terkoz and Tarzan, just as they motivate the German enemy and American recruit in the realm of American propaganda.
