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Here's an ill-judged joke from the Austrian satirical weekly Wiener Caricaturen (Viennese Caricatures). Entitled "Parallels," this cartoon invites a comparison between the rituals of erotic diplomacy and the momentous, history-altering events then unfolding. The background: On June 28, 1914 the heir to the thrones of the Dual Monarchy, Franz Ferdinand, had been assassinated in Sarajevo. Suspecting…
The New Age , 14 (22 January, 1914), p. 376.
This is the cover of a 1932 issue of Der wahre Jacob , a German satirical magazine linked to the Social Democratic Party. Father Time, appearing as a physician, is taking the pulse of a stricken personification of Capitalism. The former says: "Get used to it. The sickness that you're suffering from is called old age." Hitler was appointed chancellor exactly one year after this issue's date of…
People fall. Profits rise. Franz Seiwert (1894 - 1933), Der Sturm , 18: 12 (March 1928), p. 175.
A 1926 parody of The New Yorker 's own "Are You a New Yorker?" feature. I took the test. I am indeed an American. The New Yorker (May 29, 1926), p. 30.