[Abel], designer

Јеврејска завера против Европе! [Jewish Plot Against Europe!] 

Lithograph poster

Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Beranek Press

[1941]

19 5/8 x 28 3/16 in. 

Paret 241 (variant); Zeman p. 104 (variant). 

Caricatures of John Bull and Jozef Stalin stand upon blood-stained ground, grasping hands over the iron-clad "Fortress" of Nazi-occupied Europe, incidentally including the neutral countries of Sweden, Switzerland, and Spain. Looming above is the monstrous visage of the so-called "Eternal Jew." Although unsigned, the French version bears the artist's signature. 

Dating from the early stages of the Russian campaign, other variations were printed throughout Nazi-occupied territories, including Dutch and Belgian French-language editions. This edition was printed in Nazi-occupied Serbia, which had been invaded by the Axis powers in April 1941. 

The design was almost certainly 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. 

References:

Peter Paret. Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. 

Zbyněk A. B. Zeman. Selling the war: Art and Propaganda in World War II. New York: Exeter Books, 1982. 

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