Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper "For the Stat"

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 "For the Stat" 

Height: 19.920 inches (50.597 cm) | Width: 15.080 inches (38.303 cm) 

The German family. A very ordinary burgher on weekdays, he is transformed when he puts on the uniform on Sunday. She belongs to a woman's group. 

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Image of full length portraits of a man, woman, and child; man wears uniform bearing swastika on left arm; woman wears swastika badge over left chest; boy wears uniform bearing swastika on left arm. upper right corner, in pencil,"Die Familie des Dritten Reiches"