Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The Blonde Beast

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 Blonde Beast 

overall: Height: 19.920 inches (50.597 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) 

These are some of Nietzche's supermen, sketched from life. The man at the left is a labor leader. In the center, the real superman, the storm trooper. A Heidelberg student at the right. 

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Image of almost full frontal portraits of three men, two definitely Nazi soldiers, one in double breasted coat. top center, in pencil,"Deutschland Ueber Alle" (written in hand that does not appear to be the artist's)