Die Drahtzieher! [“The Masterminds!”] Nazi propaganda poster.

(HOLOCAUST)

Zentralverlag der NSDAP

Munich

1942

Parole der Woche, nr. 22. Large broadside (wandzeitung). The yellow background of the poster represents the color of the Star of David that Jews were forced to wear in Germany.

The text is derived from a speech that Hitler gave to the Reichstag on April 26th, 1942. The text denounces Jews as the reason that Germany lost World War I, the group that incited the rise of Communism, and drove Britain and America to war with Germany. As proof for these claims, the poster features pictures of six prominent Jews: Bernard Baruch, an advisor to Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt during both World Wars; US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter; and Soviet diplomat Maksim Litvinov. On the right features Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Secretary of War; Walther Rathenau, German industrialist and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic; and Kurt Eisner, German Socialist who overthrew the monarchy in Bavaria in 1918.