Drawing by William Sharp
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Image of a man approaching a well-to-do couple on the street as he is showing them a badge on his jacket. White adhesive label on verso, upper left corner with"2" typewritten on it. German title in ink, bottom edge right of center
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.
overall: Height: 13.620 inches (34.595 cm) | Width: 10.380 inches (26.365 cm)
The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Harold Shachner.
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