us-005578-irn95244-irn13549
archival history: The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999.
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scope and content: Anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda poster published in Munich, Germany, and distributed the week of May 27 to June 2, 1942. The text is from a speech that Adolf Hitler gave to the Reichstag on April 26, 1942. The text denounces Jews as the reason that Germany lost World War I, the group that incited the rise of communism, and drove Britain and America to war with Germany. As proof for these claims the poster features pictures of 6 prominent, powerful Jewish men. On the left are two Americans and a Soviet: Bernard Baruch, an advisor to Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt during both World Wars; Felix Frankfurter, an advisor to Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt and a US Supreme Court Justice and Maksim Masimovich Litvinov, a diplomat who sought to ally Soviet Union with the west against Germany before World War I. On the right is an Englishman and two Germans: Leslie Hore-Belisha, a member of Parliament and British secretary of state for war from 1937-40; Walther Rathenau, an industrialist and statesman who served as head of the War Raw Materials Department in the German War Ministry in 1914-15, minister of reconstruction in 1921, and foreign minister in 1922; and Kurt Eisner, a socialist and statesman who opposed German involvement in WWI and organized a Socialist Revolution that overthrew the monarchy in Bavaria in 1918.The captions under these photos label all the men as Jews and the yellow background color of the poster is a similar shade as the Star of David badges Jews were forced to wear in Germany.
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date: 1942 May 27-1942 June 02
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biographical history: Bernard Baruch was born on August 19, 1870, in Camden South Carolina, to Simon Baruch and Isabel (Belle) Wolfe Baruch. Simon was born in Prussia, to a Jewish family. He came to the United Sates in 1840 to avoid conscription in the Prussian army. He became a doctor and served as a surgeon for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Belle came from a wealthy South Carolina family which had suffered ruin following the Civil War. Bernard had three brothers, Hartwig (1868-1953), Herman (1872-1953) and Sailing (1874-1962). Bernard graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1889, and became a successful stock market speculator and financier. He married Annie Griffin and they had 3 children, Belle, Bernard Baruch Jr., and Renee. In 1916 Benard was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense. In 1919, he was a member of the Supreme Economic Council at the Versailles Peace Conference and was also a personal adviser to President Wilson on the terms of peace. During WWII he was an advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt. After the war he formulated policy at the United Nations. Bernard Baruch, age 94, died on June 20, 1965, in New York City. Felix Frankfurter was born on November 15, 1882, in Vienna, Austria Hungary (now Austria), to a Jewish couple, Leopold, a merchant, and Emma Frankfurter. Felix had 5 brothers and sisters Otto (1879-1961), Felix (1880-1957), Paul (1884-?), Ella, (1892-?), and Estelle (1895- 1997). In 1894 the family immigrated and settled in New York City. Felix attended City College and Harvard Law School where he later taught. Felix was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1906–1909, and secretary of war under President William Howard Taft 1911–1913. He was a legal adviser to President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Felix married Marion Denman in 1919. He was an active Zionist and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Felix adv…
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title: The Masterminds! Anti-Semitic propaganda poster with pictures of several prominent Jewish figures
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physical characteristics and technical requirements: Offset lithograph poster with a yellow background and narrow border printed on white, medium weight paper. In the center, it features 2 paragraphs of German text in bold, black font quoting from a speech. The text is bookended by large, bold opening and closing lines. To either side is a column of 3 black and white photographic headshots with captions identifying each man as a Jew and by name. The back lower left edge has a torn scrap of paper adhered to it. See record 1990.41.16 for another copy of this poster. back, piece of paper, bottom left, printed, black ink : Ausgabe A / Die Parole Der Wo / Parteiamtliche Wandzeitung der NS / Folge 22 / 27. M / Dezugspreias monatlich RM. - . / Grscheint wdchentlich einmal / Dostbersanbort Münche [Issue A / The Slogan The Wo / Party official eall newspaper of the NS / Episode 22 / 27.M / Deportation charges monthly RM. - . / It grows once a week / Dostbersanbort Münche]
record resource extent: overall: Height: 33.125 inches (84.138 cm) | Width: 47.250 inches (120.015 cm)
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