Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Sweet Charity

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 Sweet Charity 

overall: Height: 19.880 inches (50.495 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) 

These pleasant looking fellows are telling the poor old mendicant that if there is any begging to be done, they'll be do it-for the pockets of the party faithful. 

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Image of three Nazi soldiers, all holding round cans with swastikas; they are approached by a thin, pitiful looking fellow who holds his hand out in a gesture of asking for something; all four stand in front of buildings, one which has a sign that says"Butte" over the doorway. in pencil, caption"Looking for Relie" (appears to be written in hand other than artist's)