Brown Shirt unit leader reporting to Hitler: ‘The lads are very happy, my Führer! They just wonder if we have any other dispensable diplomats abroad.’

The label on the trunk reads: ‘Contribution from the Jewish population of Germany’. Depicted on the left is Hermann Goering, who amassed a personal fortune from the confiscation of Jewish property. The shooting dead on 7 November of Ernst vom Rath, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Paris, by Herschel Grynszpan, a seventeen-year-old Polish Jew, served as the excuse for Kristallnacht.

Hermann Goering anti-semitism Kristallnacht original political cartoon artwork

Size 14cm x 24cm

Medium Pen and ink on paper

Published 15 November 1938

Publication Yzvestviya [News]