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LOT 312:
Illustrated Anti-Semitic Poster – The Netherlands, World War II
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Illustrated Anti-Semitic Poster – The Netherlands, World War II
An illustrated anti-Semitic poster. No printer, location, or year indicated. Signed in the plate: M. M. [The Netherlands, ca. 1940].
A large poster, printed in grey and orange, depicting the letter V, symbolizing the word Victory, with the point of the V stabbing the chest of a Jew dressed as a Roman soldier with a Star of David on his shirt and holding the hilt of a broken sword, the rest of the sword lying beside him.
The slogan "Deutschland Siegt an Allen Fronten" [Germany Wins at all Fronts], with the letter V [for Victory] was used by the Nazis for propaganda purposes in the early 1940s, and appeared also on propaganda leaflets distributed in The Netherlands after its occupation in 1940. This poster was also printed in a small format, and was used by the Dutch resistance movement in ca. 1941 (the Dutch drew Hitler’s face on top of the Jew’s face and wrote the words "Deutsche Wehrmacht" on his broken sword).
91.5X122 cm. Fair condition. Folding marks, creases and stains. Tears and open tears at folding marks and margins of poster. A note in pen on the back of the poster.
