Catalog No.: 41


Kurt Poltiniak
Militarism in West Germany

Autumn 1950
colored pen-and-ink drawing
h 51, w 34.6.
Inv. no.: Gr 91/108

Under the sun of the US dollar, America, the world power reclines as the new Caesar. Kneeling before her is her slave, Adenauer, receiving alms with gratitude. Outside in the foreground wait Kurt Schumacher (SPD), chained to a dog collar, and Ernst Reuter (SPD: mayor of West Berlin), enthusiastically ringing the liberty bell in support of Berlin. The internal German border is already strewn with crosses marking graves. In the interior the Germans appear as shoe-cleaners to the Americans, the members of the German forces as an extension of the German Wehrmacht; parliamentarism is fit for little more than a self-service store. Fascism dares to venture out of hiding. In a deep cellar Emperor Barbarossa gets drunk an comics and Coca Cola. The good citizens tend the swastikas in their gardens while the Nazi rats plan new attacks an the USSR.

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