Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Worker Laid Off
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 19.880 inches (50.495 cm) | Width: 14.020 inches (35.611 cm)
Creator(s)
- William Sharp (Artist)
Biographical History
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.
Archival History
The drawing was aquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Scope and Content
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.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Two images on sheet, one recto, one verso. Recto: Image of four Nazi soldiers; one bearing a flag of the Nazi swatika, holding a salute to another to a uniformed man; Nazi soldiers standing to the left; all oblivious to a fallen man. Verso,image of seated man.
bottom center, in pencil, "HE DID NOT SALUTE THE FLAG" (appears to be in hand other than artist's)
People
- Sharp, William, 1900-1961.
Subjects
- Newspapers--New York (State)--New York--Political cartoons.
- Anti-Nazi movement--United States--Political cartoons.
Genre
- Object
- Art