Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper 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 Discipline 

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

This happened in 1934 in Oranienburg, where there is a big concentration camp. This was a political prisoner, in"protective custody" Nearly 50,000 persons were sent to those places in that year. 

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Image of man, tied arms over head, back bare, to a post; Nazi soldier stands next to him, grinning, whip in his right hand; lines (whipping bruises) cover the tied man's back; in background, buildings with high chimneys behind fence, bird flying in sky. bottom edge right of center, in pencil,"Protective Custod"; date in ink, lower right hand corner