Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper He did not Conform

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 He did not Conform 

overall: Height: 19.880 inches (50.495 cm) 

This was Dr. Erich Mucsahm. He was arrested the night of the Reichstag fire, beaten so badly he became deaf, thrown into a concentration camp. They hanged him in his cell, called it a suicide. 

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Image of man hanging from the window of what appears to be a prison cell; he appears dead or unconscious, as he hangs on his head. "Er hat sich erhang" [He did not conform]