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Auction 170, Lot 523

"A Map of Herr Hitler's Heaven, Drawn with Undiplomatic but Fervent Hopes That It Won't Happen Here",

Subject: Central Europe, Germany

Period: 1938 (published)

Publication: Ken Magazine

Color: Black & White

Size:
8.6 x 11.6 inches
21.8 x 29.5 cm
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This cartoon map of pre-war Nazi Germany shows the ideal place for Hitler with a book-burning festival, a "factory devoted exclusively to making medals for Goering," concentration camps, and a Nazi soldier pushing a large Viking figure up a hill as "the New Theology." An Austrian maiden is chained by the foot with a note that it is "purely a cultural tie." The compass rose carries a swastika, and a large cloud over Germany is named "Herr Goebbels" and blows propaganda (or "more baloney") at the country. Drawn by Richard Q. Yardley and published in the second issue of Ken Magazine (21 April 1938), a controversial anti-fascist magazine. On verso is a satirical cartoon of a spiked hand grasping a baseball superimposed with the globe.

References: PJ Mode Collection #1270.02.

Condition: A

Crisp and bright with minor toning along the edges of the sheet.

Estimate: $110 - $160

Sold for: $190

Closed on 11/14/2018

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