b'PAROLE DER WOCHE. LOTS 113-123. Issued by the the Reichs Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Parole der Woche (Slogan of the Week) was a series of Nazi propaganda posters issued weekly between 1936 and 1943.Poster art was a mainstay of Nazi propaganda effort - the striking visual effects easily reached the viewer as they were placed anywhere there was dense trafc ow.The subject matter of the present examples are centered upon Jews and on the Allied countries. The Nazi regime fostered the notion that Jews were the masterminds behind all oppositional political forces. Additionally, these posters emphasized that the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union had been overtaken by Jewry. For more, see Jeffrey Herf, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (2006).113 (HOLOCAUST). Die Drahtzieher! [The Masterminds!] Nazi propaganda poster. 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. Cleanly folded. 33 x 47 inches. Munich, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1942. $1500 - $2000 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 1918.57'