Editorial cartoon by Oliver Herford, 1919. Apparently “demon rum” was the gateway drug of the time, leading to laudanum, opium, and so forth. Larger view here; via { feuilleton }.
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“There is an interesting variant of the OSS Hitler skull stamp that was produced by U.S. agents in Berne. The 45-pfennig propaganda variant depicts Hitler more crude, skull-like and horrific than the regular OSS parody stamp, and the ‘45’ denomination probably indicates the year 1945. The text on the stamp is Futsches Reich. There is what appears to be a hand-written propaganda message in German just below the stamp that says:
New for philatelists!
45 - Third Reich with plate flaws
“The German is oddly written so was probably penned by an American. Specialist Wolfgang Baldus thinks that the OSS might have planned to make people believe that German stamp dealers were offering the ‘45’ stamp. To make it look like a real stamp they drew the perforation and added a black area around the perforation. The German inscription was added to give the impression that the stamp was offered by German dealers.”
From a fascinating article on propaganda and espionage philately. Discovered via Boing Boing.
Photo taken outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran. More interpretations of Lady Liberty at WebUrbanist.
A short, ominous clip of 1930s German television. Via Neatorama.
Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century.
“I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: ‘If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.’ Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.”
By Menachem Rosensaft
And to think I wrote the man off as the dopiest press secretary ever.
