A far-sighted Englishman Nazi poster on the need to destroy the US-Jewish conspiracy to rule the world
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 16.625 inches (42.228 cm) | Width: 23.375 inches (59.373 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Zentralverlag der NSDAP (Publisher)
- Reichspropagandaleitung der N.S.D.A.P. (Issuer)
- Zentralverlag der NSDAP (Issuer)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (Author)
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 poster 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
Anti-Jewish, anti-American Nazi propaganda poster explaining that Jews are the Master of the United States. They have made the American people go to war to further the Jewish plan to conquer the world. And it is only the German people who can stop them. It reprints a 1909 cartoon showing Uncle Sam pushing a Native American off a cliff, followed by a Jewish man pushing Uncle Sam off the cliff. The poster was issued on August 12, 1942, for the Parole der Woche (Slogan of the Week) series produced by the Nazi Party in Germany from 1936-1943. The series was discontinued in 1943 because of paper shortages caused by the prolonged war. The US declared war on Germany in December 1941. World War II in Europe ended with the surrender of Germany in May 1945. This poster is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Color offset lithograph poster in black ink on offwhite paper with a boxed reproduction of an illustration on the left and a boxed quote on the right surrounded by German text on a yellow background. The image and quote are designed to look like separate small offwhite posters affixed to a large yellow wall poster. The title in bold font is across the top, with 2 lines of German text above the insets and 11 lines of text filling the paper below explaining the Jewish conspiracy to take over the US. The illustration has 5 sequential vertical panels captioned: HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES / Copyright Life Pub. Co. 1909 - transferred to Pastime Novelty Co. 1913. The panels depicts: a Native American standing on a cliff edge, with Uncle Sam hiding behind a rock; Uncle Sam pushes the Native American off the cliff; Uncle Sam stands on the cliff edge, with a caricatured Jew hiding behind a rock; Uncle Sam is pushed off the cliff by the Jew; the Jew stands on the cliff edge. It is within a frame made by the extended wings and head of a left facing eagle. The second inset is 9 lines of German text, transcribed below, beginning Viel früher..., on a light yellow background.There is a Parole der Woche seal in the upper right corner and 2 official Nazi Party publishing stickers on the back.
back, sticker, black ink : Ausgabe B / Die Parole Der Woche / Parteiamtliche Wandzeitung der NSDAP. / Folge 33 12. August 1942 / Bezugspreis monatlich RM. --.60 / Erscheint wöchentlich einmal / Postverfandort München [Official Nazi Party wall poster Issue 33, August 12, 1923, Published weekly, Postal address Munich] back, sticker, black ink : Herausegegben von der Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP. / im Zentralverlag der NSDAP. / Franz Eher Nacht, München [Edited by the Reich Propaganda office of the Nazi Party.] back, on 2nd sticker, handwritten, red marker: # 499
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda, German.
- Propaganda, German--Posters--Specimens.
- Antisemitism--Germany--20th century--Posters.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Posters.
- Propaganda, Anti-American--Posters.
- Anti-Americanism--Germany--Posters.
- Nazi propaganda--Posters--Germany--Specimens.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Germany--20th century--Posters.
- Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)
Genre
- Object
- Posters
- Posters.