Collection: Osher Collection
Name: "I acted according to your wishes, the Comintern has been dissolved."
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Date/Date Range: 1941
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Dimensions: 67 x 49 cm on linen 72 x 50 cm
Notes: LC Call No. D743.25 1941top translation: "I did as you wished, the comintern is dismissed"bottom translation: "Plans bolshevization England and America"
Brief Description: Depiction of Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin telling U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister, Winston Churchill that the Comintern has been dissolved. They stand next to a table with 8 chairs, each stamped with the Star of David and a tablecloth with hammer and sickle and Russian stars. Below the table are 10 Jewish men studying a plan to spread Bolshevism to America and England.
Historical Context: Poster was designed for and exhibited at the Grand Anti-Masonic exhibition that ran from October 22,1941 - January 19, 1942 in Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade was the capital of Nazi Germany occupied Serbia where a puppet government was headed by collaborator Milan Nedic. Germany had invaded only six months earlier on April 6, 1941. The exhibit was financed by the Germans in their newly occupied territory and featured propagandist materials which promoted anti-Semitic ideas. There was a focus on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic plot to achieve world domination. The exhibits worked to dehumanize the Jewish people and justify their extermination by the Germans. During 1941 the German occupiers shot and killed 8,000 male Serb Jews and rounded up the Jewish women and children. The women and children were sent to Semlin detention camp and virtually all of the 6,280 of them were killed by the following spring of 1942. More than 80,000 people visited the Grand Anti-Masonic exhibition during the three month run.
Accession Number: OML-1941-138
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