Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The Nazis as Arsonists

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. 

The drawing was aquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991. 

Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The Nazis as Arsonists 

overall: Height: 19.610 inches (49.809 cm) | Width: 11.140 inches (28.296 cm) 

I saw the Reichstag fire. And they beheaded the poor simple Dutch boy Marinus van der Lubbe for this crime they committed a few days before Hitler came to power in 1933! 

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Image of huge gothic building on fire;"Reichstagbrand-dem Deutschen Volk" written on building; four Nazi soldiers duck in foreground, the rear one holding a lit torch. lower left corner, in pencil,"2"