Jewish Equilibrium Propaganda poster of Churchill and FDR on a Jewish controlled seesaw
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 20.875 inches (53.023 cm) | Width: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm)
Archival History
The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
Scope and Content
Antisemitic propaganda poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941. It has caricatures of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sitting on a makeshift seesaw balanced on a globe, controlled by a giant caricatured Orthodox Jew. The poster was created for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition held in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination. Jews were portrayed as the source of all evil, which had to be destroyed, along with Jewish controlled countries, such as the Soviet Union and the US, and any outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Yugoslavia was invaded and dismembered by the Axis powers in April 1941. Germany annexed most of Slovenia and placed Serbia under military occupation. The exhibition was organized by the Serbian puppet government of Milan Nedic in collaboration with the German occupiers.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Color offset lithograph poster with a yellow background and a red border. It depicts a caricature of a giant Orthodox Jewish man controlling a makeshift seesaw where 2 caricatured men sit in profile, facing each other from opposite ends. The man on the left is Franklin D. Roosevelt, a balding man with a pince nez, a blue suit, and a crutch; the man on the right is Winston Churchill, a fat, bald man in a gray suit. Both men are looking up, with mouths agape, at the Jewish man who has peyot, a long white beard, black eyebrows, and a large, hooked nose. He wears a long black coat and a cap with a Star of David. He stands gloating, with his elbows out, hands on hip, straddling the center of the board which balances upon a blue globe with 2 centered red continents, Europe and Africa, casting a black shadow on the right. Serbian text is printed vertically down both sides. The poster is adhered to slightly larger linen backing. See 2016.184.347 for another copy of this poster.
back, pencil : illegible
People
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda, German--Posters--Specimens.
- Propaganda, Anti-British--Germany--Posters--Specimens.
- Antisemitism--History--Posters--Specimens.
- Nazi propaganda--Posters--Specimens.
- Propaganda, Anti-American--Germany--Posters--Specimens.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Germany--Posters--Specimens.
Genre
- Posters
- Object