ПОЉУБАЦ ЕНГЛЕСКОГ ЈУДЕ [The Kiss of the English Judas]

Printed poster

[Belgrade, Serbia] 

N.p.

[1941]

Approx. 19 1/2 x 27 1/4 in. 

An enigmatic antisemitic poster showing a caricature of a Jewish man, confusingly wearing a head kerchief bedecked with Stars of David, forcibly kissing a reluctant man at center. A third man, filled with rage, looms above both figures and appears ready to strike one or perhaps both. 

The design was displayed in the "Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition" that ran from 22 October 1941 until 19 January 1942 in Belgrade, in Nazi-occupied Serbia. The exhibition was financed by the Germans with the support of collaborationist leader Milan Nedić and organized by former members of the fascist Yugoslav National Movement (Zbor). 

The title of the exhibition sought to expose alleged Judeo-Masonic and Communist conspiracies for world domination. Artworks were virulently antisemitic,  dehumanizing Jews and seeking to justify their extermination. Included as part of the exhibition, over 60,000 copies of 20 different posters were also distributed to Serbians. 

[World War II, WWII,  FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, Allied, Axis, George S. Patton, Air Force] [Propaganda, Posters, Ephemera] [Antisemitism, Anti-Semitism]