Der Giftpilz:
Ein Stürmerbuch für Jung und Alt

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[Printed signs within the illustration]

SPRECHZIMMER

SPRECHSTUNDEN vorm. 9–11 · nachm. 3–5 Samstag keine Sprechstunde

Bitte Ruhe

Krankenkasse

[Printed caption]

Hinter den Brillengläſern funkeln zwei Verbrecheraugen und um die wulſtigen Lippen ſpielt ein Grinſen.

Analysis

How does this illustration work?

This illustration accompanies Wie es Inge bei einem Judenarzt erging. A caricatured doctor opens his consulting-room door toward a young woman holding papers in an otherwise ordinary clinic waiting room.

The professional signs make the setting recognizable and routine; the caption then instructs the viewer to reinterpret a look through the doorway as criminal and sexual menace.

Propaganda technique: Medical-danger stereotype; sexual threat; hostile reading of facial expression.

Evidentiary boundary: The depicted action is only a patient being called or admitted; criminality is supplied by caption and caricature.