{"id":643,"date":"2004-11-06T22:20:37","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T02:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/11\/06\/historical-caricature\/"},"modified":"2004-11-06T22:20:37","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T02:20:37","slug":"historical-caricature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/11\/06\/historical-caricature\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical caricature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1548'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, I know it&#8217;s an utter waste of my time and yours, but months ago I bookmarked a caricature of Hitler that I found online, which tonight (because I happened to be going through my bookmarks) I&#8217;m going to foist on these pages.  I don&#8217;t remember how I got to this link, but it&#8217;s on one of the Berlin Staatsbibliothek pages detailing the archival collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de\/deutsch\/ausstellungen\/kirchner\/\">Klaus Kirchner<\/a>.  (I don&#8217;t know who Kirchner is, but I have done archival research in the Berlin &#8220;Stabi,&#8221; and I know that it&#8217;s full of good stuff.)  This caricature is probably from the late-30s, likely from a Soviet-influenced sector of anti-fascist agitation.  It&#8217;s crude, although rather striking, in a bear-baiting sort of way.  The text, translated, says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gorilla &#8220;Adolf&#8221;<br \/>\nCareful!  Rabid!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Underneath, in block capitals, we read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s where he belongs<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s where he&#8217;ll end up!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"628\" src=\"http:\/\/www.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de\/deutsch\/ausstellungen\/kirchner\/rede_pix\/11.jpg\" width=\"441\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I know it&#8217;s an utter waste of my time and yours, but months ago I bookmarked a caricature of Hitler that I found online, which tonight (because I happened to be going through my bookmarks) I&#8217;m going to foist on these pages. I don&#8217;t remember how I got to this link, but it&#8217;s on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}