This 1938 satirical map from Ken Magazine attacks Hitler and the growing threat of Nazi Germany. Cartoon figures throughout the country show a few humorous developments ("factory devoted exclusively to making medals for Goering") and many that ominously foreshadow what was to come, including propaganda, "big book burning festival," "happy labor - no strikes," "to the Ukraine," and "concentration camps."
Ken was a controversial anti-fascist magazine, first published in April 1938. It was distinguished by unusual and powerful graphics like this one and a number of articles on the Spanish Civil War by Ernest Hemingway. The magazine failed in August 1939 as a result of wariness by advertisers and a boycott by the Catholic Church.
Title: A Map of Herr Hitler's Heaven
Collection: Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection / ID 1270.02
Creator: Yardley, Richard
Date: 1938
Measurement: 30 x 22 (centimeters, height x width)
A Map of Herr Hitler's Heaven (1938)
There’s SO much I don’t know even at 65. Thanks for fascinating looks at the past (to see where we’re going as history repeats itself)