GERMAN EROTIC PROPAGANDA MEDAL.
N.p: signed “K.G.”, and dated 1920.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
1 vols. 2-1/4 inches diameter. Fine condition, mounted in a double glazed circular gilt plaster and red plush frame.
Item #8800
Goetz was the most celebrated propaganda medallist of early 20th century Germany. The obverse shows a nude female captive, her arms tied behind her to a giant phallus surmounted by a French soldier’s helmet, under the words “Die Schwarze Schande”, a broken harp beside her, and an all-seeing eye looking down. The reverse displays a grotesque caricature of a negroid French soldier, in helmet, next to the words "Liberté egalité fraternité", and the date 1920; above are the words "Die Wacht Am Rhein!!", possibly a scurrilous reference to French colonial troops serving in World War I.
