Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Anti-Nazi handbill, text in German on one side and an image on the other, that warns all those who have supported Hitler and the Nazis that they will be brought to justice. The title, Wer ist dieser Mann? refers to the image which suggests a wanted poster and depicts a crowd of people with a man in a Nazi uniform circled in the center. The text is based upon a speech by Winston Churchill to the British House of Commons on September 8, 1942, that denounces the treatment of Jews as the Germans most bestial act and ends with a pledge to join the US in a postwar Nazi crimes tribunal: "When the hour of liberation strikes in Europe, as strike it will, it will also be the hour of retribution. ... the solemn words which were used lately by the President of the United States, namely, that those who are guilty of the Nazi crimes will have to stand up before tribunals in every land where their atrocities have been committed in order that an indelible warning may be given to future ages and that successive generations of men may say, "So perish all who do the like again."
- Artwork Title
- Wer ist dieser Mann?
- Alternate Title
- Who is this Man?
- Date
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publication/distribution:
after 1942 September 08-before 1945 May
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Heck
- Markings
- Wer ist Dieser Mann? / Wir kennen seinen Namen nicht. Wenn Du, deutscher / Mann, und Du, deutsche Frau, / ihn kennst, setze ihn auf Deine / Schwarze Liste. Nach Hitlers / Sturz werden die Schuldigen / gerichtet! / ,,Wenn die Stunde der Befreiung in Europa / schlägt, und sie wird schlagen - dann wird / es auch die Stunde der Vergeltung sein. / Und die Naziverbrecher werden in jedem / Land, in dem sie gefrevelt haben, vor Gericht / gestellt werden, auf dass für künftige Zeiten / eine unauslöschliche Warnung ergehe und / kommende Geschlechter sagen mögen : Wer / tut, was jene taten, soll vergehen!" / Winston Churchill am 8. September 1942 / Schwarze Listen für die / Schwarze Schmach [Who is this man? / We do not know his name. If you, German man, and you, German woman, know him, put his name on your / blacklist. After Hitler's / fall, the guilty will be judged! ,, When the hour of liberation in Europe / strikes, and it will strike - then it will be the hour of retribution. / And the Nazi criminals in every country in which they have sinned, will be brought to justice / think on that as an indelible warning for future times that / you may say to coming generations: Who / does what those did will be judged "! Winston Churchill on September 8, 1942 / Black lists for the / Black Shame
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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Anti-Nazi propaganda
- Object Type
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Handbills (tgm)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular double-sided handbill in black ink on offwhite paper. On one side is a black and white photographic image of a closely packed and varied crowd of Aryan men and women, chiefly faces visible, filling the entire sheet. Near the center, a thick white circle has been drawn around the figure of a man in a uniform hat and jacket with a Nazi eagle badge and a swastika armband. The other side has a preprinted text only column of German text: from the top, a title in large bold font, a 7 line, 3 sentence paragraph in medium bold font, an indented paragraph length quote by Churchill in regular font, and a 2-line slogan in large, bold cursive font.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Anti-Nazi handbill was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by David Heck.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:26:10
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