With the socialist worker soldier Poster of worker and German soldier chasing away the Jew controlling Allies
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 32.250 inches (81.915 cm) | Width: 24.250 inches (61.595 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- O. Platteau & Co. (Publisher)
Biographical History
The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.
Archival History
The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Antisemitic, anti-Allies Nazi propaganda poster issued in German occupied Netherlands showing a Jewish businessman dressed in clothing with symbols of America, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union being chased away by a local worker and German soldier. In May 1940, Germany invaded and occupied the Netherlands, setting up a civil administration supervised by the SS. In June 1941, Germany broke its pact with the Soviet Union and launched an invasion into Russia. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Since Germany had a mutual assistance pact with Japan, they declared war against the US four days later. Germany produced war propaganda in the language of the countries they occupied to convince the local populations of the threat posed by the Allies and the need to support the war effort. In this piece, they claim that the Allies are tools of the long standing Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world through their control of international finance. The handbill is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Offset color lithograph poster on light brown paper with a cartoon of a rotund Jewish man running to the left. Behind him, a red skinned workman and uniformed German soldier brandish weapons, a hammer and a stick grenade, warning the Jew to get out. The Jewish man has an angry, brooding expression, with thick eyebrows, creased cheeks, a large round nose, and fleshy lips. He wears a US styled red, white, and blue stars and stripes vest and pants, British Union Jack top hat, and a Soviet 5 point red star badge with a hammer and sickle, and has a briefcase tucked under his arm. There is Dutch text at the top and bottom.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Posters.
- Propaganda, Anti-Soviet--Posters.
- Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Posters.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Propaganda, Anti-American--Posters.
- Nazi propaganda--Posters.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Posters.
- Propaganda, Anti-British--Posters.
Genre
- Object
- Posters