Hitleriada Macabra 1946 Stanisław Toegel Rare Anti-Nazi Satire Artwork

This is an original 1946 edition of Hitleriada Macabra, one of two rare postwar satirical portfolios created by Polish caricaturist and Holocaust survivor Stanisław Toegel. Produced in the immediate aftermath of WWII at a Displaced Persons (DP) camp in Osnabrück, Germany, the work was published by Antoni Markiewicz in Celle and reflects Toegel's raw, visceral reaction to the Nazi regime's horrors. The illustrations are grotesque, poignant, and scathingly humorous,distilling the emotional aftermath of genocide and oppression into powerful visual indictments.

Before the war, Toegel worked in (now Lviv, Ukraine) as an illustrator and editorial artist. Following the suppression of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, he was captured by German forces and deported to Göttingen as a forced laborer. While imprisoned, he risked his life creating clandestine anti-Nazi drawings, capturing the absurdity and brutality of the Third Reich from within its belly. After being liberated by British forces, Toegel relocated to Osnabruumlck, where he completed Hitleriada Macabra and its sister volume Hitleriada Furiosa. Hitleriada Macabra is the darker of the two, blending gallows humor with surrealist nightmare. The imagery skewers Nazi leadership, particularly Hitler himself, by stripping them of grandeur and laying bare the grotesque human cost of fascism.

The illustrations combine theatrical linework with nightmarish symbolism, reminiscent of Goya's Disasters of War but filtered through mid-20th-century trauma. An incredibly rare piece of DP camp-era cultural resistance, this portfolio is both a historical artifact and a psychological testimony, an act of defiance rendered in ink by a survivor who refused to stay silent.

Condition:

Good – Noticeable wear from age and use but remains structurally sound. Considered average condition for most collectibles and memorabilia. Minor imperfections or signs of handling may be present but do not detract from the overall integrity of the item.

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