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The ABC of the Nazi Regime - Cartoons about Nazi brutality in the Netherlands. Brussels, 1944 - First edition

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HET ABC VAN HET NAZIREGIEM - "The ABC of the Nazi Regime", by Herman A Vos, published by A.N.U.M., Leuven, Brussels, 1944 - first edition. Dutch.

Booklet of high quality caricatures ridiculing Adolf Hitler and Nazi regime leaders, colorful illustrations according to the Dutch ABC by Dutch artist Herman A. Vos accompanied by short rhyming captions describing Nazi atrocities and hope for imminent victory. The opening on the first page below Allied flags: "Proposed to the Nazi regime that treated us so wonderfully during five years of terror, by putting us in concentration camps, detention centers, labor camps and penal prisons, threatened us with death, and did not even fail executing the latter, in the name of all, former police prisoner Herman Vos, 1944".

Among other things, in letter C Goebbels is depicted burning books with caption "The censorship that suppresses all freedom", in the letter F a drawing of Hitler with loot on his back reads: "The Führer who emptied our country", in letter I a Jew with yellow star and SS soldier aiming gun at him with the writing: "The Jew mortally wounded", in the letter P an SS soldier beating a concentration camp prisoner and the writing: "Torture invented by the Nazis", and more. The final caricature depicts Hitler, Goebbels and Göring in a coffin.

[28] p. 17 cm. Tears on the margins of the soft cover with open tears at the bottom and top right corner. Otherwise good condition.

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105. The ABC of the Nazi Regime - Cartoons about Nazi brutality in the Netherlands. Brussels, 1944 - First edition