Everyday propaganda: a sign, a fair and Hitler postcards, 1937
A roadside sign reads 'Juden unerwünscht', an elderly couple watches a roller coaster, and young men study a rack of Hitler portraits.
Under a spreading tree a small sign on a post reads Juden unerwünscht while a child pedals a tricycle along the quiet road and an old woman in a headscarf walks by. At a fair an elderly woman in a crocheted cap and a thin man in a flat cap gaze at the rides, and a car full of passengers races along a timber roller coaster. A shop window is filled with portraits of Hitler, and young men in side caps stand before a postcard rack marked 10 Pf.
Hate and entertainment stood side by side in the ordinary street. Signs barring Jews went up at village entrances and swimming baths from 1935; the pictures of the Führer came mostly from Heinrich Hoffmann, his personal photographer, who grew rich on the monopoly.
