Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The Third Reich

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 The Third Reich 

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

To me the spirit of the Third Reich is death in a Brown Shirt. I hated and feared the Nazis from the time they began to be powerful. When such things could be printed, I contributed drawings under an assumed name to the newspapers hostile to Hitler. That was to make trouble for me later. 

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Image of a skeleton, posing as death in a brown S.A. uniform, holding a dagger in the left hand. center bottom, in pencil,"The Spirit of the Third Reic"; lower left corner, in pencil,"3"; verso, upper right corner, in pencil,"6"