The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Poster for a meeting and speech about the Jewish/Bolshevik threat against Germany sponsored by the local Nazi Party of East Hannover. This poster is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
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Victory Poster for Nazi Party speech on Jewish Bolshevik threat with a silhouetted Jew
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.
Offset color lithograph poster on light brown paper announcing a local Nazi Party meeting. The topic is printed in German fraktur over an oversized, silhouetted caricature of a Jewish man’s head in left profile, with a large, red Star of David next to his nose. He has bushy eyebrows, a huge, hooked nose, and thick, slightly parted lips. One hand extends below the neck, and is partially hidden by a billowing cloud of smoke from red flames that he is fanning around a destroyed factory and tank. There is additonal German text set between 2 thick, horizontal bars. The poster is adhered to linen backing.
overall: Height: 32.750 inches (83.185 cm) | Width: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm)