Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The Mummer
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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.
1940 October 27
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Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper
The Mummer
overall: Height: 16.890 inches (42.901 cm) | Width: 12.360 inches (31.394 cm)
Perhaps sometime, the German people will see the fleshless bones behind the mask that the Fuehrer wears. He has fooled them so far. It cannot last forever. This is the closing picture in my sketchbook. I hope the lesson is well read.
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Image of three-quarter length portrait of Adolf Hitler, removing a mask which is his face to reveal a skeleton's head; the scene is backed up by blackness.