Сазнај! КАКО ТО ОН ОПСТАЈЕ [Find out! HOW HE SURVIVES]

Offset lithograph 

Belgrade, Serbia

N.p. 

[1940-1941]

approx. 18 7/8 x 27 1/2 in. 

A grotesquely antisemitic poster dominated by the sneering visage of a caricatured Jew. The design was used to advertise the 1940 Nazi propaganda film Der ewige Jude [The Eternal Jew], directed by Fritz Hippler at the insistence of Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. The variant here, printed in lurid yellow with vivid red writing, was printed for the Serbian market, controlled by the Nazis from 1941, and may have also been exhibited at the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition.

The exhibition 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, Pearl Harbor] [Propaganda, Posters, Ephemera] [Antisemitism, Anti-Semitism] [Film]