22 ЈЧНА / САМО НЕМАЧКОЈ ЗАХВАЛИ ШТО ЈЕ ОВА ВДАСНОСТ ОТКЛОЊЕ-НА ОД ЕВРОПЕ И СРБИЈЕ. [22 South / We Only Thank Germany for Removing This Disgust from Europe and Serbia.]

Printed poster

[Belgrade?]

N.p.

[1941?]

Mounted to 25 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.

A dramatic antisemitic and pro-Nazi propaganda poster produced in occupied Serbia. A three-headed King Kong-esque beast ravages Serbia. Its heads are labeled "Communism," "Capitalism," and "Jewishness." Two of its heads are impaled by a Nazi spear.  

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]