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Heartfield, John
German (1891-1968)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Hitlers bester Freund
TRANSLATED TITLE: Hitler's Best Friend
JOURNAL TITLE: "AIZ, Illustrierte Volksblatt", August 15, 1935, p. 528

1935
PUBLISHER: Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
rotogravure print, rephotographed montage with typography
37.8 x 26.5 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Barbara Morgan
GEH NEG: 24379
76:0076:0016

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Evans, David. --John Heartfield: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung Volks Illustrierte, 1930-1938.-- New York: Kent Fine Art, Inc., 1992. p. 303.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Hitlers Bester Freund" "Streicher, Der Schander Deutschlands" "'Der Sturmer ist die einzige Zeitschrift die Adolf Hitler Von A-Z Liest' Julius Streicher" ["Streicher, The Violator of Germany" "'The Stormtrooper is the only newspaper Adolf Hitler reads from A-Z' Julius Streicher"] "Montiert: John Heartfield"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, DZ. "Julius Streicher (1885-1946) founded the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Sturmer and was its editor from 1923 to 1945. The swastika is formed from Der Sturmer headlines: 'Rasseschander Judenschwein' (Race violator Jewish pig), 'Ritualmorde...' (Ritual murders), 'Der Judengeruch' (The Jewish stench), 'Frauen und Madchen die Juden sind euer Verderben!' (Women and girls the Jews are out to ruin you!), 'Judenfreundinnen...Schachtung...' (Girlfriends of Jews...Ritual slaughter...). In Nazi terminology the word Schander (rapist or violator) described any Jewish male involved in a sexual relationship with a non-Jewish German woman; cohabitation between German Aryans and Jews was Rassenschande (race defilement); and interracial marriage was Blutschande (incest; literally, blood shame)." [Evans, p. 302]

SUBJECT: genre, political

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