Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Rudolf Hess

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 Rudolf Hess 

overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) 

Rudolf Hess is Hitler's most devoted servant. 

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Three quarter length portrait of man holding his hat in his hands, which are folded at his abdomen; he is dressed in a dark uniform, bearing the swastika on the left arm. bottom edge, lower left corner, in pencil,"Rudolf Hes" (does not appear to be artist's hand)