Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It portrays a large, stereotypical Orthodox Jewish man holding a small scale balancing Joseph Stalin against a stack of US dollars and British pounds. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination. Jews were portrayed as the source of all evil, which had to be destroyed, along with Jewish controlled countries, such as the Soviet Union and the US, and any outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Yugoslavia was invaded and dismembered by the Axis powers in April 1941. Germany annexed most of Slovenia and placed Serbia under military occupation. The exhibition was organized by the Serbian puppet government of Milan Nedic in collaboration with the German occupiers.
- Artwork Title
- Who will be heaviest? No one! Because the Jew is holding the scale!
- Series Title
- Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1941
- Geography
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distribution:
Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition;
Belgrade (Serbia)
manufacture: Belgrade (Serbia)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
- Markings
- front, bottom left, black ink : OFFSETDRUCK BERANEK BELGRAD
front, bottom right corner, black ink : 3.000 Pr•B• „S” 28
front, bottom, black and red ink : ко ће претегнути? / нико! јер јеврејин држи равнотежу… / посетите / антимасонску изложбу / на ћете се уверити [Who will be heaviest? No one! Because the Jew is holding the scale! Visit the Anti-Masonic Exhibit, and you will see for yourself.]
Physical Details
- Language
- Serbian
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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Anti-Jewish propaganda
- Object Type
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Posters, Serbian (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Poster on light brown paper on a prepared linen support. The dominant image, filling the top three-quarters of the poster, is a large, sterotypical Orthodox Jewish man, dressed in a black overcoat and yarmulke, with a large, bulbous nose, and white sidelocks, mustache, and long, full beard. He holds a balance scale in his right hand. The bowl on his right holds stacks of British pounds, dollar coins, and banknotes, and a sack with 1,000,000,000 on it. In the left bowl is a black haired, mustached man in a green military uniform with a red star, and a holstered gun, Joseph Stalin. He stands looking at the money, holding onto the scale suspension ropes. At the bottom is a light brown panel with Serbian text in black and red ink. For another version of this poster, see 2016.184.333.
- Dimensions
- pictorial area: Height: 18.625 inches (47.308 cm) | Width: 27.750 inches (70.485 cm)
overall: Height: 21.625 inches (54.928 cm) | Width: 30.750 inches (78.105 cm) - Materials
- overall : paper, ink, linen, adhesive
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Serbia--20th century--Posters--Specimens. Antisemitism in art. Antisemitism--Pictorial works. Antisemitism--Serbia--History--20th century--Posters. Jews--Caricatures and cartoons. World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Posters.
- Personal Name
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953--Caricatures and cartoons.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009.
- Funding Note
- The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 21:51:08
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn40053
Also in Serbian antisemitic poster collection
The collection consists of antisemitic posters created in Serbia during the military occupation by Nazi Germany from 1941-1944.
Date: 1941
Propaganda poster of Churchill and FDR on a Jewish controlled seesaw
Object
Antisemitic propaganda poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941. It has caricatures of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sitting on a makeshift seesaw balanced on a globe, controlled by a giant caricatured Orthodox Jew. The poster was created for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition held in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination. Jews were portrayed as the source of all evil, which had to be destroyed, along with Jewish controlled countries, such as the Soviet Union and the US, and any outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Yugoslavia was invaded and dismembered by the Axis powers in April 1941. Germany annexed most of Slovenia and placed Serbia under military occupation. The exhibition was organized by the Serbian puppet government of Milan Nedic in collaboration with the German occupiers.
