Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Der Deutsche Gruss ist Heil Hitler Discipline

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 Der Deutsche Gruss ist Heil Hitler Discipline 

overall: Height: 19.920 inches (50.597 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) 

They came to the police station for help. They are being bawled out for not saluting the officer with"Heil Hitler" The sign says that is the proper German greeting, but they couldn't read. They were blind. 

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Image of a policeman shouting and pointing to the door with a sign about Hitler's greeting; two people stand on the other side of the railing, looking thin, helpless; a fourth figure sits on the inside of the railing, next to the stern man, viewing the situation; set inside an office. lower left corner, in pencil, caption