Poster of an Orthodox Jew balancing Stalin and $ 1 billion on a scale
Extent and Medium
pictorial area: Height: 18.625 inches (47.308 cm) | Width: 27.750 inches (70.485 cm)
overall: Height: 21.625 inches (54.928 cm) | Width: 30.750 inches (78.105 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
Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It portrays a large, stereotypical Orthodox Jewish man holding a small scale balancing Joseph Stalin against a stack of US dollars and British pounds. 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
Poster on light brown paper on a prepared linen support. The dominant image, filling the top three-quarters of the poster, is a large, sterotypical Orthodox Jewish man, dressed in a black overcoat and yarmulke, with a large, bulbous nose, and white sidelocks, mustache, and long, full beard. He holds a balance scale in his right hand. The bowl on his right holds stacks of British pounds, dollar coins, and banknotes, and a sack with 1,000,000,000 on it. In the left bowl is a black haired, mustached man in a green military uniform with a red star, and a holstered gun, Joseph Stalin. He stands looking at the money, holding onto the scale suspension ropes. At the bottom is a light brown panel with Serbian text in black and red ink. For another version of this poster, see 2016.184.333.
People
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Posters.
- Antisemitism--Serbia--History--20th century--Posters.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Serbia--20th century--Posters--Specimens.
- Antisemitism--Pictorial works.
- Antisemitism in art.
Genre
- Posters
- Object