The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Original Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition Poster,
- 1941
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20 1/2 x 29 inches ~ (50 x 73 cm)
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a caricature of an oversize, stereotyped, Orthodox Jewish man, dressed in black with a black yarmulke, a large, bulbous nose, white sidelocks, moustache, and long beard, filling the top three-quarters of the poster. He looks greedily at a balance scale held in his right hand. The right scale bowl holds stacks of British pounds, dollar coins, banknotes, and a bag with 1,000,000,000 on it. A black haired, mustached miniature man in a gray/green uniform with a red star, and a holstered gun, Joseph Stalin, stands in the left bowl, looking at the money, holding the scale suspension ropes.
Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination with the intent to increase hatred against outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Yugoslavia had been invaded and dismembered by the Axis powers in April 1941. Germany annexed most of Slovenia and placed Serbia under military occupation. The exhibition was organized by the Serbian puppet government in collaboration with the German occupiers.