(Berlin, Germany, 1891 - 1968, East Berlin)
1933
Photogravure
10 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (26.2 x 37.6 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of Roger R. Smith
1991.35
While the Brownshirts were the German SA, the Blackshirts were the paramilitary group organized by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) to support his Fascist movement in Italy. The montage’s title plays off a proverbial German saying “Like brothers, like caps,” which is similar to “like father, like son” or “birds of a feather flock together.” Rudolf Hess (1894-1987) became deputy leader of the Nazi Party in April 1933. The Nazi shown in the image, however, is Julius Streicher (1885-1946), founder and editor of the anti-Semitic Nazi newspaper The Attacker.