The Führer's ancestors and Der Stürmer, 1937
A poster lines up Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Hindenburg and Hitler, and hands leaf through Der Stürmer with its motto Die Juden sind unser Unglück!
A drawn poster shows four profiles one behind another, Frederick the Great in his tricorne, Bismarck in a cuirassier's helmet, Hindenburg and Hitler in peaked caps, above the caption Was der König eroberte, der Fürst formte, der Feldmarschall verteidigte, rettete und einigte der Soldat. Hands hold up Der Stürmer: the front page headed 4000 Jahre Krieg with the motto Die Juden sind unser Unglück! at its foot, an inside page with a photograph of croquet at a weekend house, captioned to single out a Jew, under the heading Charakterlose Judenknechte, and a strip of cartoons mocking the United States.
The poster placed Hitler at the end of Prussia's line of great men. Julius Streicher's weekly, published in Nuremberg, took its motto from the historian Heinrich von Treitschke and filled its pages with denunciations that readers sent in, names and photographs included.
