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John Heartfield

(Berlin, Germany, 1891 - 1968, East Berlin, Germany)

COME AND SEE GERMANY!

1936

Photogravure

14 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (37.6 x 26.2 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of Roger R. Smith

1991.30

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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This montage was part of a special issue of AIZ that offered an unofficial guide to the host city and country. A two-page map showed the locations of prisons and concentration camps throughout Germany. Heartfield stresses that the Berlin Olympics are providing the Nazis with a marvelous propaganda opportunity (see November 28, 1935 montage). He emphasizes Goebbels’s physical deformity – a clubfoot – and the Nazi’s beastliness by transforming it into an animal’s hoof.

Keywords
Photomontage
Commercial Art
Germany
World War II
Propaganda
Photogravure
Politics