КАКО ТО?!? [How Come?!?]

Offset lithograph

Belgrade, Serbia

N.p.,

1941

approx. 19 3/16 x 27 7/16 in. 

An antisemitic and anti-Communist poster depcting a caricature of a wealthy and overfed Jew surrounded by the Communist hammer & sickle, a Star of David, and bags of money. The poster proclaims in Serbian, "How is it so?!? The Jews are comfortable with the Bolsheviks. The Jews are comfortable with the Plutocrats. Why? Because Bolshevism and the Plutocracy are the works of the Jews!"].
 

The design was displayed in Belgrade's "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]