The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror
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© The Heartfield Community of Heirs/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011.
© The Heartfield Community of Heirs/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011.
Source: Willi Münzenberg (ed.): Braunbuch über Reichstagsbrand und Hitlerterror (The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror). Foreword by Lord Marley, Basel 1933, cover illustration by John Heartfield (1891–1968), © The Heartfield Community of Heirs/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011.
The cover of the Brown Book, published by émigrés in Paris, depicts Hermann Göring screaming, wearing a butcher's apron and wielding an axe. The book's authors tried to prove that the Nazis themselves had set fire to the Reichstag. 135,000 copies of the Brown Book were printed; it was translated into over 20 languages.
Source: Willi Münzenberg (ed.): Braunbuch über Reichstagsbrand und Hitlerterror (The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror). Foreword by Lord Marley, Basel 1933, cover illustration by John Heartfield (1891–1968), © The Heartfield Community of Heirs/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011.