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