Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Where do they March
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 14.020 inches (35.611 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
Creator(s)
- William Sharp (Artist)
Biographical History
Leon Schleifer was born in 1900 in Germany. He served in the German army at the end of World War I (1914-1918). He became a political cartoonist and his work was published in the anti-Nazi press. He also specialized in courtroom trial sketches. After the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, Schliefer emigrated to the United States. He changed his name to William Sharp and continued his career as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator. His work was published in the New York Times, Life Magazine, and other publications. He died in 1961, age sixty-one years.
Archival History
The drawing was aquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Scope and Content
This is the most terrible thing about Germany - the way the children are growing up. These innocents were singing: "You storm troopers young and old, take your weapons in your hand, for the Jews have launched confusion in the German Fatherland." The men on the curb have a right to be complacent. They know that the little boys will carry bombs and guns in a few years.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Image of five youth marching past fat man and policeman who give Hitler salute; the youths wear swastika armbands, and one leads carrying a banner that has a symbol that looks like a lightning bolt or half a swastika; four of the youth, young boys, are all dressed in the same uniform; the fifth youth, a girl, wears the swastika armband.
lower right, in ink, "Hitler Youth Marches" (written in hand that does not appear to be artist's)
People
- Sharp, William, 1900-1961.
Subjects
- Newspapers--New York (State)--New York--Political cartoons.
- Anti-Nazi movement--United States--Political cartoons.
Genre
- Object
- Art