Political cartoon by Sidney 'George' Strube, entitled, "Will the Evian Conference guide him to freedom?" that was published in the Sunday, July 3, 1938 edition of The New York Times.

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Date

1938 July 03

Description

Political cartoon by Sidney 'George' Strube, entitled, "Will the Evian Conference guide him to freedom?" that was published in the Sunday, July 3, 1938 edition of The New York Times. It depicts a "Non Aryan" with his head down sitting in the middle of a swastika next to a signpost telling him to go, however stop signs lay at the end of each possible path out of the swastika. This is representative of the Jewish situation in 1938 Germany, as the Nazi government attempted to drive Jews from the country but foreign powers such as America and Britain refused to take them in. The Evian Conference glows on the horizon providing a glimmer of hope for the future, but when the conference did meet from July 6th-15th, 1938, none of the 32 countries except the Dominican Republic agreed to take in more refugees. This was a major propaganda victory for Nazi Germany who critiqued the hypocrisy of countries that objected to German treatment of Jews but refused to take them in themselves.

Type

Political Cartoon

Region

New York City

Era

The Great Depression and WW II

Topic

Global History and Geography, Jewish History, World War II

Repository

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Identifier

71847

Source

Daily Express

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