Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Poster from the 1938 racial science textbook, Erblehre und rassenkunde für die grund- und hauptschule, by Alfred Vogel. Nazi ideology sought to create a racially pure German nation. All those who did not belong to the Nordic race were to be excluded from the community. Thus citizens had to be educated to recognize the physical characteristics that revealed the racially undesirable, as well as the disabled, handicapped, and sickly.
- Artwork Title
- Ausmerzung des Kranken und Schwachen in der Natur
- Alternate Title
- Eradicating the sick and weak in nature
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1938
- Geography
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publication:
Munich (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
- Markings
- front, top, black ink : Ausmerzung des Kranken und Schwachen in der Natur [Eradicating the sick and the weak in nature]
- Contributor
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Publisher:
J. F. Lehmanns Verlag
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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Nazi propaganda
- Object Type
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Posters, German (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Color poster with 2 image panels: on the left is a hawk perched on a tree branch over dead rabbit; on the right is a blond man with an axe raised over his head, preparing to chop down a diseased, short, orange pine tree. In the background is a forest of tall, green pine trees.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004.
- 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:
- 2024-10-03 13:06:47
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Poster from the 1938 racial science textbook, Erblehre und rassenkunde für die grund- und hauptschule, by Alfred Vogel. Nazi ideology sought to create a racially pure German nation. All those who did not belong to the Nordic race were to be excluded from the community. Thus citizens had to be educated to recognize the physical characteristics that revealed the racially undesirable, as well as the disabled, handicapped, and sickly.
