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I think this cartoon is showing somewhat sarcasm between the two leaders and the competition will be between them despite the pact

http://getting-in.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Nazi-Soviet-Pact-276x300.png, a cartoon on the same subject

A British cartoon from 1939.

A soviet cartoon from 1939. CCCP is russian for USSR. The french and the British are directing Hitler away from western Europe and Towards the USSR.

"The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life. If the French had then marched into the Rhineland we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even a moderate resistance." Adolf Hitler speech after German forces get into the Rhineland, 1936.

"At that time we had no army worth mentioning .... If the French had taken any action we would have been easily defeated; Our resistance would have been over in a few days. And the Air Force we had then was ridiculous - a few junkers 52s from Lufthansa and not even enough bombs for them..." Adolf Hitler speech after German forces get into the Rhineland, 1936.

A British cartoon about the reoccupation of the Rhineland, 1936. "Pax Germanica" is Latin and means "Peace, German style".

Depth analysis of cartoons representing the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Good way to practice source analysis!

Plzeň will have a monument to the thousands of Czechs who were expelled from their homes in the German-annexed border areas before World War II and forced to move to inland Czechoslovakia, will be unveiled in Plzeň next year, Jaroslav Bukovský has told ČTK on behalf of the organizers.

This cartoon from 1938 shows Hitler as a poacher, stealing Austria. Mussolini is shown as a game keeper: "All right, Adolf-I never heard a shot".

Nazi Occupation of the Sudetenland

How Hitler Browbeated The Austrian Chancellor To Sign The Anschluss