Kollwitz produced powerful German Expressionist lithographs in the same Weimar era using stark black and grey tones to address the human cost of militarism and war, with children frequently appearing as vulnerable symbols against forces of violence and death.

Grosz created biting Weimar Republic era prints that satirized German militarism using dramatic graphic contrasts and dark tonal ranges, directly critiquing the culture of war and its presence in civilian life with the same critical interwar sensibility found in Herbig's composition.

Hoerle produced German Expressionist and New Objectivity era prints depicting figures in relation to mechanized and militarized imagery, using high contrast black tones and compositional tension that closely parallels Herbig's treatment of childhood innocence alongside the machinery of war.