File:Arthur Szyk (1894-1951). The Nibelungen series, Valhalla (1942), New York.jpg

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English: Szyk caricatures Wotan's palace, Valhalla, as a German beer hall, where the one-eyed divinity drinks with "heroes" of Germany's imperial past, while Hitler, Mussolini, Goering, and Goebbels bring in food and libations. In the background, opposite bodies hanging from the gallows in a cemetery, is the aged French collaborator Petain preparing a meal for the guests. On the wall is a quote often cited by Szyk and attributed to Hitler: Conscience is a Jewish invention. To emphasize the antisemitic tradition in German history, the god Wotan sits with one foot on the body of a Jew and the other on a volume of poetry by nineteenth-century German Jewish author Heinrich Heine. Each of the "heroes" wears a swastika to suggest a continuity of German antisemitism throughout the ages.
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Source The Arthur Szyk Society, Burlingame, CA (www.szyk.org)
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Arthur Szyk  (1894–1951)  wikidata:Q711673
 
Arthur Szyk
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Artur Szyk
Description American-Polish caricaturist, painter and illustrator
Date of birth/death 16 June 1894 Edit this at Wikidata 13 September 1951 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Łódź New Canaan
Work period 1914 Edit this at Wikidata–1951 Edit this at Wikidata
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