January 29th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Anti-Fascist Penis Propaganda: Foutre!
The few places this art appears on the web label it “Nazi propaganda” but the language is French and the style seems to suggest French anti-Nazi propaganda to me:
Even if you click for the slightly-bigger version, the resolution isn’t good enough to read the smaller text except that I can make out the word “petit” at the end of the first line. Google tells me that the repeated “Foutre!” in the upper caption is a vulgar French word that can be translated a number of ways but which, etymologically anyway, basically means “Fuck!”
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I’m not certain Goebbels would have authorized showing Hitler astride a circumcised cock.
It’s somewhat easier to read when you’re French:
“Il est bien trop petit,
mon ami.
Il est bien trop petit,
dame, oui.”
Or :
“It’s much too small,
my friend.
It’s much too small,
yes, miss.”
Probably adapted from /Le Petit Grégoire/ by Théodore Botrel, which has very similar lines.
http://fr.wikip...otrel
Thanks, M. Chapeau! I rather wondered whether somebody with the ability to recognize word shapes would be able to puzzle it out. I do appreciate it.
I would translate “dame oui” by something like “yes indeed”.
If anyone is interested in hearing an opinion from someone with an extensive art background, I’m pretty certain that that’s no amateur doodle. I’d love to be able to find confirmation that it was drawn by an experienced/gifted (no pun intended)artist.
In fact, the girl looks an awful lot like the work of a pin-up cartoonist (Erich Sokol?, Doug Sneyd?, Phil Interlandi?, Eldon Dedini?, Dan DeCarlo?, Bill Wenzel?, Bill Ward?, Jack Cole?, Don Flowers?, Dean Yeagle?) who later was a regular contributor to Playboy magazine. So many of them were so greatly influenced by the others, that they are hard to tell apart!
Whiplash, I think the era is likely to be too early for the pinup artists we mostly recognize here in the United States, but I agree with you about the professionalism. The thing you have to remember is that cartoonery — especially political cartoonery — was a whole publishing genre; there were many magazines in circulation where all of the visual matter was cartoons. A few echos of this persist in our cultural memory — think of the cartoons and art in the New Yorker — but the pinup artists you name would have in many cases been utterly soaked in that visual tradition.
So, my own thinking is that this image probably wasn’t *official* propaganda, but it probably was a cartoon drawn by a professional for a magazine or newspaper, probably a somewhat scurrilous or lowbrow one.
The drawing was made in 1933. Note the “S33” on the left side. The drawing is extracted from a diner menu of a gourmet club who called themselves “Les batons de chaise” (the party animals). This drawing appears to be extracted from the menu of the diner of February 23, 1933 (http://www.abeb...87/bd). Hitler is chancelor since January 30 of that year so the drawing is strongly related to the fears this political event causes.
The drawing was made by Raoul Serres who appears to have been using the pseudonym “Schem” for his erotic work (check this one for instance: http://img15.ho...9.jpg).
Vincent, that is some excellent image forensic work! Thanks so much.
You’re welcome. The image was posted on Reddit, and it took me about half an hour to collect all the pieces of the puzzle. One of the pieces, the exact text at the bottom, was found here so thanks for that :-)