Hitleriada Macabra - Stanislaw Toegel 1946 Lithograph

Hitleriada Macabra - Stanislaw Toegel 1946 Lithograph
Hitleriada Macabra by Stanislaw Toegel is a series of lithographs printed in colour adhered to card and bound. All of them depict different situations and horrors that Nazis committed in occupied Poland during the WW2. In this case it's the one kown as SS sadist, where an SS officer is depicted forcing a Polish woman to the gallows. Description text in English and French says "What makes them smile".The original cartoons were created clandestinely by Stanislaw Toegel, a Polish POW, in German labour camps during the final years of the Second World War. Stanislaw Toegel (1905-1953) was a lawyer and amatuer artist, who served as a reserve officer with the Polish Army and was captured by the Germans after the battle for Poland in 1939. He escaped and spent the German occupation in Warsaw. During this time Toegel actively participated in the Polish underground movement of the AK (Armia Krajowa or Home Army). After the Warsaw uprising was quashed by the Germans in October 1944 Toegel was once again sent to a prison camp at Göttingen, Germany, where he was forced to labour in a paper mill. It was here under difficult conditions that he produced the original satrical drawings in secret. This was despite the certain death sentence that his identification as the artist by the Germans would mean. After the camp was liberated in 1945 Toegel worked in a Displaced Persons or D P camp at Osnabrück, Germany. During his time there he contributed further drawings and articles for a journal circulated amongst the DP camps.
Size:
43x32cm
32,5x24cm