A special issue of the French newspaper Le Rire – “The First French Humoristic Newspaper, ” dated April 13, 1935. Titled “Germany 1935,” this issue is filled with cartoons and jokes mocking Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.
On the cover, there is a large cartoon of Hitler painting the Earth with blood, with the caption: “Company of Drawing – Hitler’s Construction ‘Beware of the Paint'” (signed in the plate: J. Senner). Inside the issue, there are numerous anti-Nazi cartoons and articles, including: How Hitler was born from the Treaty of Versailles. Proposals for Joseph Goebbels for posters aimed at promoting tourism to the Reich abroad, with slogans such as “Germany, Land of Culture” and “Country of Kidnappings.” An article mocking the Nazi dissolution of the Potsdam city council. The Aie! Aie! Hitler humor section, which uses derogatory terms for the Führer and includes jokes referencing Jews: “Since Hitler declared that he would kill one out of every two Jews, they now walk around with an even number prominently on their shirt buttons” and “Everything is the Jews’ fault.”
A section ridiculing the Aryan family, describing how one of their collaborators managed to infiltrate a “good Aryan family” and send back an “exciting report” that readers will find below. A “Revelation” section where Hitler shows his “peace plan” for the next five years: “… I irritated the Jews in the Reich. I banned them from certain professions. They can no longer be officers. But nothing prevents them from serving Germany abroad…” A comic section about a Nazi training camp, and a cartoon where Hitler thinks he is Napoleon, among others.
[18] pages. Complete issue. Good condition.
