Yankee - Englishman - Bolshevik Dance to the Tune of the Jewish Cabal Nazi handbill of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin controlled by Jewish piper
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) | Width: 5.125 inches (13.017 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Viktoria (Cartoonist)
Biographical History
The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.
Archival History
The handbill was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Antisemitic, anti-Allies Nazi propaganda handbill issued in German occupied Netherlands showing the leaders of America, England, and the Soviet Union following the tune of a Jewish man playing a pipe. In May 1940, Germany invaded and occupied the Netherlands, setting up a civil administration supervised by the SS. In June 1941, Germany broke its pact with the Soviet Union and launched an invasion into Russia. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Since Germany had a mutual assistance pact with Japan, they declared war against the US four days later. Germany produced war propaganda in the language of the countries they occupied to convince the local populations of the threat posed by the Allies and the need to support the war effort. In this piece, they claim that the Allies are tools of the long standing Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world through their control of international finance. The handbill is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Paper handbill with a black border and black and red caricatures of the heads of 4 middle aged men grouped in the center. At the top is a balding man with a stereotypically Jewish large, red nose and hooded, slit eyes with a black mustache. He is blowing into a musical pipe and 2 music notes float in the air to the left and there is red shading to the right. The man on the left, Roosevelt, has pince nez, sparse wavy hair, faintly flushed cheeks, a big, toothy grin, and tiny bowtie. The man on the right, Stalin, has cropped black hair, thick arched eyebrows over closed eyes, a bushy mustache, and a large red nose. At the bottom is a balding man, Churchill, with bags under his small, tired eyes, a small red nose and cheeks, and paunchy jowls. He wears a polka dot bowtie and had an oversize cigar between his lipsd. The artist’s name, Viktoria, is underlined and printed in the top right corner and a caption fills the poster below the image. The back is blank.
back, top, pencil : Dutch WWII [?] Leaflet
People
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subjects
- Propaganda, Anti-British--Posters.
- Propaganda, Anti-American--Posters.
- Propaganda, Anti-Soviet--Posters.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Posters.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Posters.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propagan--Posters.
- Nazi propaganda--Posters.
Genre
- Object
- Posters