Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper A Rise in Life

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 A Rise in Life 

overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 14.920 inches (37.897 cm) 

This man used to be a horse butcher, a knacker, of Magdeburg. Just an ordinary butcher. When the Nazis came in, he became a headsman, he operated a laundry. Oh, yes, the German people ate the flesh of the horses he slaughtered. 

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Three quarter length portrait of man dressed in top hat and tails; he holding a meat cleaver in his right hand; over his right shoulder a poster in the background reads"HINGERICHTET...Heil Hitler! Hermann Goerring" bottom margin at right, in ink,"Der Gendarm der europaischne Kultu"