Stanislaw Toegel. Hitleriada Macabra.

Estimate: $500–$600
Hammer price: $600

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author

(HOLOCAUST).

printer

Antoni Markiewicz

Place

Hamburg

Publication

1946

Description

One of 1450 copies (this copy unnumbered). Introductory text in Polish and English. Captions (printed on mounts) in Polish, English and French. With 9 (of 10) colored plates, featuring scenes of overt fear and bestial torture.

summary

A lawyer by training, Polish cartoonist Stanislaw Toegel (1905-53) endured forced labor under brutal German-Nazi oppression. Immediately following liberation and despite tremendous shortages of paper and related materials, he produced this series of drawings based upon cartoons produced in secret during the war.

Original illustrated wrapers, spine broken, extremities worn, tape repair on upper cover. Folio.

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