WORLD WAR II "THIS IS NAZI BRUTALITY" POSTER.
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Winning Bid:
$177.10 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
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Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:00:00 PM)
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Item Description
28x38" poster features art by Ben Shahn and shows hooded/handcuffed man w/"This Is Nazi Brutality" text along w/telegram design that reads "Radio Berlin. -- It Is Officially Announced: - All Men Of Lidice - Czechoslovakia - Have Been Shot: - The Women Deported To A Concentration Camp: - The Children Sent To Appropriate Centers -- The Name Of The Village Was Immediately Abolished. 6/1//42/115P." Lidice was a town completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in late Spring 1942. On June 10, 1942, all 173 men over 16 years of age from the village were executed. Several hundred women and over 100 children were deported to concentration camps; a few children considered racially suitable for re-education were handed over to SS families and the rest were sent to an extermination camp where they were gassed to death. One of just two posters designs by Shahn that were published (see item #1067), though its powerful depiction of brutality is a classic World War II poster and helped inform the world as to Nazi Germany's true character. Folded as issued w/some minor wear at fold creases intersections, poster is o/w Exc. Campbell Family Collection.
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