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DescriptionArthur Szyk (1894-1951). Satan Leads the Ball (1942), New York.jpg

English: Arthur Szyk's Satan Leads the Ball lampoons the major leaders of the WWII Axis Powers (including Adolf Hitler), among whom are interspersed other key historical figures as well as symbolic and allegorical figures including Death and Satan, lavishly uniformed with swastikas and other exaggerated insignia:

Valkyrie-like Germania, the personification of Germany
Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist leader, without pants and with holey boots
Philippe Petain, French head of state
Pierre Laval, prime minister of France
Death with Stahlhelm
Hermann Göring, Reich Marshal of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi party NSDAP and dictator of National Socialist Germany, with Mein Kampf
Obese capitalist representing the German heavy industry (Schwerindustrie), with Bavarian Tyrolean hat, the slogan Wir sind das Herrenvolk, Nazi party pin, etc.
Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister of Nazi Germany, with a Jack-in-the-box (with communist red star and hammer and sickle, Phrygian freedom cap and "Jewish nose")
Wilhelm Keitel, German WWII Field Marshal
Erich Ludendorff, German World War I general and nationalist
Joachim von Ribbentrop (?), German Foreign Minister, in black SS uniform
Hideki Tojo, general and prime minister of Japan, with Mitsubishi sword
Satan with Der Ring des Nibelungen

Norsk bokmål: «Satan fører an i selskapet», satirisk kommentartegning av Arthur Szyk 1942. Fra venstre mot høyre sees karikaturer av blant annet de nazistiske lederne for aksemaktene under andre verdenskrig, overdådig uniformert med hakekors, ordensbånd i Det tyske keiserrikets rødt, hvitt og svart og andre overdrevne verdighetstegn:

En valkyrieliknende Germania, personifikasjonen av Tyskland
Benito Mussolini, italiensk fascistleder, uten bukse og med hullete støvler
Philippe Petain, fransk statsleder (med kepi og hvit bart)
Pierre Laval, fransk statsminister, med tretti sølvpenger
Døden med stålhjelm
Hermann Göring, riksmarskalk i Nazi-Tyskland
Adolf Hitler, fører i nazistpartiet NSDAP og diktator i det nasjonalsosialistiske Tyskland, med Mein Kampf
Overvektig kapitalist somm representant for tysk tungidustri (Schwerindustrie), med bayersk tyrolerhatt, mottoet «Vi er herrefolket» (Wir sind das Herrenvolk), partinål, sjakett og hvite gamasjer
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi-Tysklands propagandaminister, med rødt troll i eske (med kommunistisk rød stjerne og hammer og sigd, frygisk frihetslue og «jødenese»)
Wilhelm Keitel (med høylue bak), tysk feltmarskalk
Erich Ludendorff, tysk general fra første verdenskrig og nasjonalist
Joachim von Ribbentrop (?), Tysklands utenriksminister, som svartkledd SS-offiser
Hideki Tojo,Japans general og statsminister, med Mitsubishi-sverd
Satan med Nibelungenringen

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1942

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The Arthur Szyk Society, Burlingame, CA (www.szyk.org)

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Alternative names	Artur Szyk
Description	American-Polish caricaturist, painter, illustrator and artist
Date of birth/death	16 June 1894	13 September 1951
Location of birth/death	Łódź	New Canaan
Work period	1914 –1951
Authority file	: Q711673 VIAF: 9968888 ISNI: 0000000108691756 ULAN: 500079362 LCCN: n85012938 NLA: 35537391 WorldCat

creator QS:P170,Q711673

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