Das Urteil der Welt! (The judgment of the world!)

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The cover of this issue showed Dimitrov’s mother, sister and wife waiting for the verdict at the end of the Reichstag fire trial. The reader turned the page and was confronted with Heartfield’s glaring image of Göring surrounded by the flames of Hell. The following page relieved this build-up of tension with an article about Dimitrov’s acquittal. Heartfield started with a photograph of Göring with a dead elk that AIZ had already “borrowed” from a German hunting magazine for its October 26, 1933 cover. Heartfield took the AIZ version, reverse printed it and painted on the smoke and flames for this end-of-the-year issue.

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Politics
Propaganda
Photogravure
Commercial Art
World War II
Germany
Photomontage