Der Giftpilz:
Ein Stürmerbuch für Jung und Alt

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Der Jude ſchrie: „Wir pfeifen auf Deutſchland ... Die Hauptſache iſt, daß es uns recht gut geht ...“

Analysis

How does this illustration work?

This illustration accompanies Wie der Arbeiter Hartmann Nationalsozialist wurde. A caricatured speaker addresses a crowded tavern or meeting room while a worker at the side looks displeased.

The picture stages the quoted line as an overheard confession and makes the worker’s alienation the visual turning point toward National Socialism.

Propaganda technique: Invented confession; disloyalty trope; political conversion narrative.

Evidentiary boundary: The image and caption create the speech they purport to expose; they are not minutes or testimony from an actual meeting.