Content note: Antisemitic caricature (Star of David figure, Masonic apron) blaming Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill for the war, from a Slovak Republic newspaper, 1942. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Kam to dotiahnu? (Where will they get to?), Ľudové noviny
A caricatured Roosevelt in a Star-of-David-marked apron stands beside a whip-wielding figure with a Star of David badge, driving a cart pulled by a collapsing, red-coloured Stalin while Churchill lags behind. The tell: the printed text names 'the father of war', a Freemason grand master and 'the closest friend of the Jews', so the war is assigned to a named group rather than to events.
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ľudové noviny (Slovak newspaper, Slovak Republic)
- Country
- Slovak Republic
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- First Slovak Republic
- Leader
- Vojtech Tuka
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- ScapegoatingName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Ľudové noviny items, webumenia.sk SVK:TMP.221), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (anonymous Czechoslovak work, 50 yrs; PD in 1996; Commons PD tag)
Unknown author; Ľudové noviny, Slovakia, 1942 (webumenia.sk SVK:TMP series), via Wikimedia Commons. Basis: Czechoslovak law of 1965 s.33(3), anonymous works PD after 50 years.
Text on the object
Kam to dotiahnu? Roosevelt, „otec vojny", slobodomurársky veľmajster, najdôvernejší priateľ Židov, zapriahol do svojej káry Stalina i Churchilla. Prvý by ťahal, ale už nevládze a padá; druhý je aj lenivý, aj nevládze. Padne teda aj on a s nimi dvoma aj Roosevelt.
Where will they get to? Roosevelt, "the father of war", Masonic grand master, the closest friend of the Jews, has harnessed both Stalin and Churchill to his cart. The first would pull, but he no longer has the strength and is falling; the second is both lazy and without strength. So he too will fall, and with those two, Roosevelt as well.
Read from the 500 px scan with the Commons description text as a cross-check. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
