Cartoon by Szewczuk on the difficult situation of German refugees (28 February 1946)

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‘Home to the Reich …' On 28 February 1946, illustrating the terrible human consequences of the Second World War, cartoonist Mirko Szewczuk employs the expression used in Nazi propaganda, Heim ins Reich, in ironic fashion to illustrate the mass exodus of German refugees fleeing the Soviet army towards the Western zones of occupation in Germany.

Source and copyright

Source: Die Zeit. Wochenzeitung für Politik-Wirtschaft-Handel und Kultur. 28.02.1946, Nr. 2; 1. Jg. Hamburg.

Copyright: (c) Mirko Szewczuk

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Cartoon by Szewczuk on the difficult situation of German refugees (28 February 1946)