William Sharp collection

Identifier: irn84805
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.

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The collection consists of a series of thirty-one drawings created by William Sharp, a political cartoonist who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933, in the early 1930s and published in PM newspaper in October 1941. Associated with PM (New York, N.Y.) newspaper, printed between 1940 and 1948.

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Displaying items 1 to 20 of 31

Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4736
- English
- 1934
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
This is probably the most revealing, most pitiless picture of Adolf Hitler ever drawn. William Sharp sketched it in Germany in 1934, long before the world realized how much blood would be shed by Der Fuehrer. Sharp's caption for the picture says: "I saw this man three times in 1931 when he testified at the trial of three of his brutal Storm Troopers for killing an enemy of the Nazis. His eyes looked just like this."
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The Press
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4737
- English
- overall: Height: 19.020 inches (48.311 cm) | Width: 13.270 inches (33.706 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
This man is a newspaper publisher and what a newspaper DER STUERMER is! Obscene, ranting, Streicher, one of Hitler's earliest supporters, is Nazi commissioner for Franconia, and is violently antisemitic.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The King of the Jews
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4738
- English
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
In 1934, something some Nazi had written. This was it: "How high Horst Wessel towers over that Jesus of Nazereth." Horst Wessel was a rough neck, a panderer, one of Hitler's hooligans. He was killed in a street brawl, and he is a Nazi hero. This is the way the Nazis really feel about the Church. They once tried to prove that Jesus was a Nordic.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The Nazis as Arsonists
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4739
- English
- overall: Height: 19.610 inches (49.809 cm) | Width: 11.140 inches (28.296 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
I saw the Reichstag fire. And they beheaded the poor simple Dutch boy Marinus van der Lubbe for this crime they committed a few days before Hitler came to power in 1933!
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The Blonde Beast
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4740
- English
- overall: Height: 19.920 inches (50.597 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
These are some of Nietzche's supermen, sketched from life. The man at the left is a labor leader. In the center, the real superman, the storm trooper. A Heidelberg student at the right.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Security
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4741
- English
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 14.020 inches (35.611 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
The man in the center is the minister of enlightenment, the Herr Doctor Joseph Goebbels. He takes no chances when he goes among the people he enlightens. I call him "Wotan's Mickey Mouse."
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The Awakening
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4742
- English
- 1934
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Dietrich Eckart was one of Hitler's earliest admirers. He died in 1923, but he left a testament. It is the poem, "GERMANY AWAKE!" full of inflammatory stuff. Well, this picture shows how Germany has awakened: a blood-thirsty maniac with a smoking pistol, plowing through heaps of dead. I completed this drawing in 1934, about the time of the Blood Purge.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper He did not Conform
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4743
- English
- overall: Height: 19.880 inches (50.495 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
This was Dr. Erich Mucsahm. He was arrested the night of the Reichstag fire, beaten so badly he became deaf, thrown into a concentration camp. They hanged him in his cell, called it a suicide.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Sweet Charity
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4744
- English
- overall: Height: 19.880 inches (50.495 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
These pleasant looking fellows are telling the poor old mendicant that if there is any begging to be done, they'll be do it-for the pockets of the party faithful.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Collective Security
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4745
- English
- 1934
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 14.020 inches (35.611 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
This is the way it was between Heinrich Himmler's Schutzstaffel and Capt. Ernst Roehm's Sturmabteilung. Himler still goes on. Roem died in the Blood Purge in 1934. On the figure wearing the Nazi uniform, the swastika is not visible. The viewer can only see his right arm, the swastika is usually on the left arm.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Totentanz
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4746
- English
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 14.020 inches (35.611 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Once when Adolf Hitler was standing by the tomb of Richard Wagner, whose music he adores, he referred to himself as "the young drummer of the German people." He has been a drummer all right [sic], thumping the tom-toms of hate and "race" to a chorus of hysterical "Heils" while the German people march blindly to their destruction. This drawing I completed in Germany. Imagine what would have happened if the Gestapo had seen it.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4747
- English
- 1934
- overall: Height: 20.510 inches (52.095 cm) | Width: 15.510 inches (39.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
These are the sketches and drawings with which I got out of Germany in 1934. They were done from scenes I witnessed myself, and from accounts by reliable witnesses. They show things that were going on in Germany while Hitler was sending his Storm Troopers, "the conquerors of the streets," beating and stomping and shooting men to death, and after he came to power, some of the pictures I brought out in sketch form, afraid to finish them. A newspaper man saw the scene above in 1933, and told me about it. The dress clothes cannot hide the brutality of the headsman and his assistants, who are ab...
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Worker Laid Off
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4748
- English
- overall: Height: 19.880 inches (50.495 cm) | Width: 14.020 inches (35.611 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
This happened in 1934 Wedding, a Berlin suburb where lots of working class live, and a friend of mine saw the whole affair. The underfed laborer had allowed the swastika banner to go by without saluting it. He was shot dead by one of the "conquerors of the streets" as the Storm Troopers were called. And the policeman at the right exchanges formalities with the murderer. There was a lot of this sort of thing that year.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Rudolf Hess
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4749
- English
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Rudolf Hess is Hitler's most devoted servant.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper "For the State"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4750
- English
- Height: 19.920 inches (50.597 cm) | Width: 15.080 inches (38.303 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
The German family. A very ordinary burgher on weekdays, he is transformed when he puts on the uniform on Sunday. She belongs to a woman's group.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper A Rise in Life
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4751
- English
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 14.920 inches (37.897 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
This man used to be a horse butcher, a knacker, of Magdeburg. Just an ordinary butcher. When the Nazis came in, he became a headsman, he operated a laundry. Oh, yes, the German people ate the flesh of the horses he slaughtered.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Der Deutsche Gruss ist Heil Hitler Discipline
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4752
- English
- overall: Height: 19.920 inches (50.597 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
They came to the police station for help. They are being bawled out for not saluting the officer with "Heil Hitler." The sign says that is the proper German greeting, but they couldn't read. They were blind.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Checkup
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4753
- English
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
This happened on my street in 1933. The policeman is looking for foreign newspapers that might be critical of Hitlerism. He carries a book of regulations. His long nose makes a good censor.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper For the State
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4754
- English
- overall: Height: 14.020 inches (35.611 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Four Storm Troop bullies in 1932 haouled an enemy of the Nazis out of his house in Beuthen, Silesia, and stomped him to death. They were sentenced to death and while they were awaiting execution, Hitler sent them congratulations. When he became Chancellor, they were pardoned. One or two of them got very good jobs in the Nazi party. In that year, political murders jumped from eight a month to 19 a month in June, went to 86 a month in July.
Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Valhalla
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4755
- English
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
That is Alfred Rosenberg, the intellectual of the Nazi pafty [sic], most ardent of the paganists. The Nazis couldn't reconcile Christianity and Hitlerism so here is Rosenberg as a Wotan in a wold skin and a striped undershirt. The gibbets stand, the cross is broken.