Cartoons of Nebelspalter 1932-1948: Hitler and Stalin seen from Switzerland Part 1

Cartoons of Nebelspalter 1932-1948: Hitler and Stalin seen from Switzerland. Part 1

Part 1: 1932-1939: Third Reich against Communism, Nazi movements / Frontist movements in Switzerland, canceling of the treaty of Versailles since 1935 and dances around the axis Rome-Berlin up to Hitler Stalin pact and breakout of wars in Spain, against Poland an Finland in 1939

part 2 1940-1948

Cover Red fists against brown fists (orig.: Rote gegen braune Fäuste)

September 1933: The new citizen's salutation "Bsst"

Presentation by Michael Palomino 2006

from: Nebelspalter 1932-1948. Against red an brown fists. 380 drawings, collected from Nebelspalter volumes 1932 to 1948
(orig.: Gegen rote und braune Fäuste. 380 Zeichnungen, gesammelt aus den Nebelspalter-Jahrgängen 1932 bis 1948). E. Löpfe-Benz-Verlag, Rorschach 1949

Comment
In Switzerland the Hitler Stalin times in Europe 1932-1948 are represented by Nazi "Frontist parties" and Communist movements with the "Working Party". The cartoons represent the corresponding activities which wanted to abrogate democracy, represent also Swiss people abroad which "stood out" very much in these times.

During the whole years 1933-1945 there was an enormous censorship in Switzerland. Corresponding to this certain subjects as the Swiss collaboration with the Third Reich or the persecution of the Jews are almost not presented. Insofar the omnibus volume cannot claim to be complete, but when one knows about it it can be a useful short guide by intellectual pictures through the Communist and Nazi times.

Michael Palomino
October 2005, English version December 2006

1932

January 1932: Goethe's year and Hitler coming up in the same year (Sadly Hitler has another philosophy than Goethe...)	June 1932: Germany: Preparations for a military state (Everybody knew who NSDAP was organized, with Hitler youth, Midsummer Night festivals, flag forest and uniforms, all "beautiful" for the facade).	July 1932: Propaganda of the Aryan noble breed (focused against Communism).	August 1932: The Nazi spider is fixing Germany (The ideological base for racism in Nazism can be found in the racism of the "USA" between 1873-1895. And many other "spiders" are active, also the Communist spider since 19th century...)

1933

January 1933: A general is reaching the weight he had before the war (The famine 1918-1919 is unforgotten. But: It was self-inflicted by meat consumption...)	February 1933: Germania shall assist Hitler in his bed (Hitler's coalition didn't have even 50% in the elections...)	March 1933: The grave of the Weimar Republic (The bosses of the industries and the "emperor loyals" wanted to have Hitler, and others thought Hitler would be only a "temporary government"...)	March 1933: German democratic winter sleep (SA is helping a lot).	March 1933: The Nazi fairy and the dreams coming up by a four years plan (Communism had five years plans. In the organization of the economy as concerning the CC leadership Communism was the model...)

May 1933: Frontist movements in Switzerland (At Zurich the foundation of the Frontist party had to be performed even two times because the Kaufleuten hall was too little...)	May 1933: Mussolini and Hitler carrying Dolfuss (The ideological base for the Nazi "popular customs" are coming from Austria).	May 1933: Censored and free watch dogs (Censorship could change every day. The situation for journalists and men of letters in Switzerland was incredibly tense).	June 1933: German folk song before the League of Nations	June 1933: Helvetia has to defend propaganda

June 1933: Quiet funeral of 3000000000 Swiss francs (Hitler and his "Reichsbank" are confiscating all foreign investments).	July 1933: The justification for the million robbery concerning the foreign assets (By the confiscation the Hitler regime makes the foreign countries dependent. Actually here already is given a reason for war against Germany...)	September 1933: The new citizen's salutation "Bsst" (By the situation with the censorship a "whispering propaganda" is coming up).	September 1933: Goebbels describing the Aryan (Neither Goebbels nor Hitler are looking "Aryan", but the population is not claiming. Seen from another point of view: For the population it was not so important if somebody was Aryan or not, but this was only important for ideologists which got their loans by racism).	September 1933: Smuggling of a swastika to Switzerland

September 1933: Family tree investigation with apostles (The population is not ready to create own measures against the family tree racism).	October 1933: Synchronization end on the battle field (Hitler always speaks about "peace". The free masons of the "USA" always knew what the situation was about).	November 1933: The group around Fonjallaz in Rome	November 1933: The Frontist movements in Switzerland are telecontrolled by Germany	December 1933: Schacht is lost at the steering wheel of the German economy (Many people are believing yet that Hitler's government would be only a "temporary" transition...)

1934

January 1934: Extortability of Switzerland by the blocked assets in Germany (All governments which had investments in the Weimar Republic were in this situation).	January 1934: The Parliament "Reichstag" is burning	May 1934: The weather cottage of the political situation	June 1934: The drummer of the death (One has to say that the whole world had an almost paranoid fair that in the next war war gas would be used. And between Japan and China the war is lasting 3 years already...)	June 1934: The Nazi press and it's attack on Switzerland (Nazi holiday centers, NSDAP of Switzerland, Swiss "Gauleiter" are prepared, the "German sanatorium" at Davos is becoming Berlin's holiday center of command etc. etc.)

July 1934: Goebbels has to learn to control the press	August 1934: Ababubugou means Nazi justice with forced labour and hunger not only exists in Germany	August 1934: Vote in Germany: All are dancing along one single pipe (with exception of these who are working hard in the CCs).	August 1934: In Bavaria has to be shoot a Schmid big in detail	August 1934: Hitler in front of Roehm's and Heine's grave

August 1934: Roehm's funeral	August 1934: The Roehm street is dismantled and replaced by Justice alley. This is Hitler's justice...	August 1934: Censorship in the Third Reich with a shield and a pistol (CC system was prepared also in Switzerland...)	September 1934: The forced yes for Hitler's election	September 1934: Communism wants to dominate the world (and is financed by Free Mason financiers from "USA").

September 1934: Changing fronts in Switzerland (The Nazi parties in Switzerland are totally split, almost like the provincial spirit).	September 1934: Censorship: Strangulation of the muse in the Mühsam case	October 1934: Dictator Schacht is ordering Goehring, Hitler and Goebbels	October 1934: Rose cheeks are representing Communism	November 1934: Swastika and hammer and sickle are marching in lockstep (More and more it becomes clear that Hitler will not be a "temporary transition". The Reich is "financed" among others by faked memorandum bills...).

November 1934: Nicole drumming like a fool	November 1934: Skull racism and economic growth	December 1934: Appeal to the creative hand	December 1934: Demonstration fever in Switzerland (Now politics are also discussed in basic schools).	December 1934: The OSAF case (?)

1935

February 1935: A right radical Swiss Frontist man	March 1935: The first political NS cold	March 1935: Nicole's breed is falling into the egg	April 1935: Whistling position against espionage	April 1935: Hitler canceling the Versailles treaty (When this had been the last Hitler had done the wold towns in Germany would exist now yet...)

April 1935: Jacob case 1: Jacob predicting a Nazi Switzerland	April 1935: Jacob case 2: Jacob is happy to be in Nazi Germany	April 1935: Jacob case 3: The Nazi spider sniffing around at Basel by night	April 1935: Jacob case 4: Helvetia protecting Jacob... big in detail	April 1935: Espionage: The man picking the brains

April 1935: The end of Wesemann	May 1935: Hitler's scare tactics against Russia has no result	May 1935: Leonhardt lets collect money at Berlin	June 1935: Goehring threatening Switzerland	June 1935: Helvetia between swastika dress and a dress with hammer and sickle

July 1935: A monument concept for Roehm	July 1935: Press censorship: The Nazi fist is directed against Switzerland (The German policy is not thinking that Swiss democracy is worth to be imitated until today...)	July 1935: Switzerland is censoring NS papers	August 1935: NS police parade: Goebbels names it some "sports"	August 1935: A snake is strangulating the peace dove

November 1935: Jews are scapegoats (Church as the creator of anti-Semitism has never been on trial for that until now...)	November 1935: The NS propaganda repository	December 1935: The butter queue in Germany

1936

January 1936: Frankfurter murders Gustloff, the foreseen "Gauführer" for Switzerland: The swastika is dancing because revenge is feared	February 1936: The graves of the political NS murders	June 1936: Hitler playing the harp in Europe (This is an allusion to the Olympic games at Berlin. During the opening some sportsmen are performing the Hitler salutation, e.g. the whole French team...)	July 1936: Long nose as a new German salutation	August 1936: A Frontist as contact man between the Reich and Italy (Since the Italian invasion in Abyssinia England is boycotting Italy and Germany helps with coal transports through "neutral" Switzerland...)

August 1936: A Swiss Frontist knocking at the Reich's door	September 1936: The Swiss umbrella against the lethal invasion (The fear of war gas is not going away, and Italy even uses war gas in Abyssinia: made by a Swiss company...).	September 1936: Stalin's sickle is cutting sharp (By mistrust high ranked military people are imprisoned in masses).	October 1936: A big thank you for the devaluation of the Swiss franc	October 1936: Communist and Nazi rockfall (and both are financed by the free mason financiers of the "USA"...)

November 1936: Italian and German in a fixed connection (in a solidarity against England which boycotts Italy because of Abyssinia. In 1942 England will occupy Abyssinia and dismantle all industry which was installed by Italy).	December 1936: Goebbels's fountain pen is censoring culture

1937

January 1937: German soldier without butter	January 1937: Jail because of treachery of race in Third Reich	February 1937: The roundabout around the axis Berlin-Rome (England is going on boycotting Italy at that time...)	March 1937: A Swiss Communist before Stalin's justice	March 1937: Swiss Frontist newspapers are claiming "Jewization" always with the same words (This thinking of a jewization was no taboo in the Swiss upper class. The scapegoat thinking was also there...)

March 1937: Executions in the Soviet Union by Chinese (The high ranked military people are executed because of invented reasons).	March 1937: A Communist chair is free in Zurich	Detail: The whiskey glass at the Communist chair	April 1937: The financial losts by Schacht's policy (Hitler is dominating whole Europe until now because all other states are waiting for an interest yield for the sequestrated investments. "Aryanizations" are coming here at the right time...)	April 1937: Frontist drum parade (Often the Frontists are making propaganda also with torch parades).

April 1937: Stalin slapping all into the face	May 1937: Communist graffiti for Spain	May 1937: Approach between Communists and Nazis, two ducks (The main duck is the "USA")	July 1937: Hitler with fever in bed	July 1937: Stalin as a criminal should imprison himself

August 1937: Germans on the top of Swiss hills: Here they don't feel spied	August 1937: Ludendorff's grave with the devil accompanying him	August 1937: The NS state and his propaganda against England	September 1937: Hitler and Mussolini on a sheep-run (Without the German coal supplies Mussolini could not survive...)	September 1937: Third Reich: The magazine "Youth" ("Jugend") is stopped

October 1937: Goethe and the rowdy Ludendorff	October 1937: Knüsli case: Stalin's newspaper propagating freedom	October 1937: Nazi money for the Swiss Frontist movements	October 1937: NS espionage is taking fotos of the Swiss border (and not only this!)	November 1937: Axis Berlin-Rome: Bismarck's comment, when he would live yet

November 1937: Swiss Nazi Frontist movements depending from Nazi ropes	November 1937: Hitler and Mussolini are parting the world	Detail: Hitler and Mussolini: The globe	November 1937: The propaganda about populations without space	December 1937: Frontists in jail

December 1937: Also the Nazis are watching Japan's war in China (Bombs are producing skulls and bones...)	(In 1919 China's democracy movements were abandoned by the European racist democracies and by the racist "USA" because China should stay to be a "colonial territory". By Japan's invasion since 1931 and by not punishing Japan there was developed a feeling in China which is distrusting to any democracy).

1938

January 1938: Shirts 5 cm shorter for the four years plan	February 1938: A Frontist leader is changing	March 1938: Jakob Schaffner is selling swastika badges as a "cheap Jakob" (It can be admitted that also hammer and sickle were sold...)	March 1938: Meeting of frustrated Swiss Communists (probably these are expelled communists in Switzerland, saying: Hey brother, they also forgot to shoot you?)	March 1938: The Nazi coordination office is stamping all the same way (so nobody has to think something...)

April 1938: Andreas Hofer died (?)	April 1938: Annexation of Austria: Shackles as in the core Reich	April 1938: Foreign press terror in Switzerland	April 1938: Freedom is leaving Austria (Also Switzerland looses a peace of freedom and above all the Jews in Europe: Against Jewish refugees Swiss and German offices are establishing the J stamp).	April 1938: The heroes of Zurzach (?)

April 1938: Communists as a "wall of peace"...	April 1938: The Nazi forefinger against Austria	April 1938: Austria is "wet painted" ("frisch gestrichen")	April 1938: Austria has been turned into Eastern Mark. When will be turned the Swiss egg?	April 1938: NS plan: The "salvation" of Switzerland (The NS staffs are planning an "operation fir tree").

April 1938: Intelligence of a rowdy	April 1938: A police spy is looking through a Swiss flag (Up to this time these are German spies mostly).	May 1938: Spies are expelled by a kick	June 1938: Stalin's hangmen are requesting to be hanged because of contact with the enemy	June 1938: Swiss Frontists are handing over the Swiss flag

July 1938: Swinging flags Switzerland-Third Reich (The mass flag cult is existing in a country with many stars until now...)	August 1938: Frontists protesting against the 1st of August (the official national day of Switzerland).	August 1938: Leonhardt's disgrace at Zurich (?)	September 1938: Aliens remark the megalomania (Only the bankers who are financing the wars are not remarked until now...)	September 1938: Hitler ready to fight against allies (Hitler lets get his relatively little army into starting positions against CSSR...)

September 1938: "USA" is publishing "interests in Europe" (after financing Communism and helping Third Reich at the same time...)	October 1938: Peace angel with a pistol ("A just aim cannot be reached with unfair means." Petra Kelly) (orig.: "Ein gerechtes Ziel lässt sich nicht mit ungerechten Mitteln erreichen.")	November 1938: Foreign newspapers in Switzerland	November 1938: A letter opener as Swiss sword	November 1938: CSSR is dissolved for the most part, and the GB lion is satisfied (By this the Versailles treaty is corrected, but all have read Mein Kampf and know what could come yet, also when Chamberlain presents Hitler's peace declaration...)

November 1938: The line of patience	November 1938: Clearing out of Frontists	November 1938: Muzzle in whole Europe	November 1938: Censorship also in a portrait of Hitler	November 1938: The Swiss house is still stable (Neutrality within the war madness turns out to be good: Money is flowing into the country by the fear of war).

November 1938: Stalin expels Swiss families	December 1938: Europe's moral chart has sunk to zero	December 1938: The peace of Munich as a hidden cannon	December 1938: Goebbels's propaganda buttons (England, "USA", "Soviet Union" and France also have such facilities, and Switzerland also, only without explicit propaganda minister...)	December 1938: Swiss youth go ahead

December 1938: Swiss with cigar and cynicism	December 1938: Swiss soldier's song

1939

January 1939: Reinforcement of the national defense	January 1939: Sleeper spy in the darkness	January 1939: Winkelried as a rescue in a dream	February 1939: Winkelried has become a Swiss banker and makes his profit	February 1939: Winkelried has become a honest Swiss man and closes the eyes

February 1939: Dominik Müller changing into the Reich	February 1939: The Gau of Switzerland is prepared	February 1939: Swastika fountain pens are hitting the honest Swiss man Winkelried	February 1939: National defense with a soldiers song made in Germany	March 1939: The devaluation of the Reichsmark

March 1939: Hitler occupies the rest of the CSSR and parts it (By the way Hitler inherits the equipment for a whole army, and with Swiss help he also gets Czech bank gold).	March 1939: Schacht leaving the sinking Nazi ship (The Third Reich is bankrupt despite of all, but now Swiss "neutral" banks are helping...)	April 1939: Flag procession without symbol	April 1939: VIP dinner of the dictators	May 1939: Neutral news in Switzerland

May 1939: Roosevelt's forefinger as a new form of salutation (because of Poland: But the Polish regime itself is playing with the Reich and with the SU at the same time till August 1939).	May 1939: The dance around the axis Berlin-Rome (Most of the European diplomacy expects that a strong Hitler coalition will destroy Communism for ever...)	June 1939: Swiss editors have to sit on their mouth	June 1939: Swiss Communists for Swiss national defense?	June 1939: Two ringmasters 3R-USSR shaking their hands

August 1939: Hitler's and Mussolini's gunpowder tower	September 1939: Chinese in Nazi uniform leaving the Russian uniform (symbolism for the fight between the troops of Mao, Chiang Kai Shek and Japan)	September 1939: Hitler's step to Russia	September 1939: Hitler Stalin pact: The SU bear will devour Hitler (Poland shall be parted which is known immediately in diplomat circles. The border to the Soviet sphere is shifted again to the West, and with the Stalin confederation Hitler looses Japan as a partner against Stalin: For the future Japan will reject the encirclement of the SU...)	September 1939: Jacob Schaffner praising the return of Danzig into the Reich (The strategic consequences and the CCs seem to be not important to him...)

Detail: Schaffner with a Swastika bird (Nazism has a bat in the belfry, in German you say it's a bird. Let's say otherwise: Goebbels is speaking sometimes so politely that it could be a bird's song, and Schaffner is believing it...)	September 1939: Justitia without any chance against the violence of war (Human rights do not exist yet. In the "USA" they don't exist until today...)	September 1939: Communists and Frontists hugging each other (Hitler Stalin pact creates new coalitions).	September 1939: Cleaning action between Nazis and Communists (and both are financed by "US" banks, and at the end of the game, "USA" wants to win...)	September 1939: The king of armament is watching the world's conscience (In fact it had to be right the other way round...)

October 1939: Capitulation impossible: Wilhelm to Hermann (Goering)	October 1939: Russia amputating the Baltic states (according to Hitler Stalin pact. Certain generals are blaming Hitler treachery now already because of this).	October 1939: Stalin's entry into European politics (Hitler made it possible...)	October 1939: Stalin and Nazi Germania dancing on Poland (Poland in the Western part is nazificated, the Eastern part is sovietized...)	November 1939: Swiss Frontist leaders are depressed

November 1939: Sovietization in the Baltic states. Gulag captive.	November 1939: Sovietization in Eastern Poland	December 1939: Shooting of students at Prague	December 1939: Swiss Nazi Frontists as jumping jacks of the Third Reich	December 1939: Going home to the Reich: A walking-tour (1000s of Germans in Eastern Europe were following Hitler's call).

December 1939: A letter of Stalin and Molotov because of Finland (This Finland war becomes decisive for the rating of the Red Army).	December 1939: The Russian bear wants to annex Central Europe

part 2 1940-1948