A Map of Herr Hitler's Heaven (1938)
Like Putin, Hitler had his eyes on the Ukraine
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)
I had seen Dr. Seuss anti-America First comics before. But didn’t know about the others. Thank you. Your posts are not only interesting but so poignant in the stories about the artists and the Ken magazine. I just saw the film, LEE, about the brilliant photographic front line work of Lee Miller during WWII. I also read the biography by her son- the Lives of Lee Miller. We need artists and historians at times like these to say, Open Your Eyes to Reality. Thank you for doing the same.
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)