It’s sad that so many people go along with the Big Lie.
It’s troubling so many intelligent people don’t see where it is taking us.
John Heartfield saw it in 1935...
John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was an artist and a pioneer in the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements. Heartfield also created book jackets for authors such as Upton Sinclair, as well as stage sets for such noted playwrights as Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.
Heartfield was a native Berliner whose parents were political activists and socialists. During the Weimar years, he joined the communist party, became a member of the Berlin-Club Dada, associating with other members such as Erwin Piscator, Bertolt Brecht, Hannah Höch, among others. During the 1920s, Heartfield produced a great number of photomontages, many of which were reproduced as dust jackets for books such as his montage for Upton Sinclair’s The Millennium.
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Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle! (English: Hurray, the Butter is All Gone!) was published on the front page of the AIZ in 1935. A parody of the aesthetics of propaganda, the photomontage shows a German family at a dinner table eating a bicycle, where a nearby portrait of Hitler hangs and the wallpaper is emblazoned with swastikas. The baby gnaws on an executioner’s axe, also emblazoned with a swastika, and the dog licks a huge nut and bolt. Below, the title is written in large letters, in addition to a quote by Hermann Göring during food shortage. Translated, the quote reads: “Hooray, the butter is all gone!” Göring said in one Hamburg address: “Iron ore has made the Reich strong. Butter and dripping have, at most, made the people fat.”
Source: https://theincubator.live/2016/12/17/john-heartfield-hurrah-die-butter-ist-alle-1935/
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