Chained And Branded By Nazis

blonde Austria chained and branded with a huge red-hot Nazi swastika branding iron

This figure in chains with a fresh burn from a Nazi branding iron is from a 1930s political cartoon by Corsair.

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Doc commented on October 7th, 2020 at 11:49 pm:

That’s a female personification of Austria. You can tell by the red and white stripes. It’s sort of a metaphor for political domination after “Anschluss”—I’m not sure if the artist really had any idea, at that point, how bad those guys were.

This is why Julie Andrews vacated Austria so quickly at the end of THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

Rope Guy commented on October 8th, 2020 at 11:53 am:

All true. The “Galley Slave Austria” caption on the linked full image is also a clue. :-) It was jsut a lot more detail than belonged in the main post. Thanks for the supplemental info-dump!

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