Content note: Antisemitic exhibition poster showing a warrior fighting a serpent marked with six-pointed stars. This object is shown as it was published. Why

Židovi: izložba o razvoju židovstva (Jews: Exhibition on the Development of Jewry), Zagreb

Poster for a state exhibition in Zagreb, 1 May to 1 June 1942. White block lettering reads 'Židovi' (Jews) over a nude warrior with a sword and a checkerboard shield bearing the Ustaša 'U', who fights a large serpent marked with six-pointed stars. The poster equates the named group with a serpent and presents the exhibition as its 'solution'.

Date: 1942
Period: Second World War
Made by: State Propaganda Office (Državni izvještajni i promidžbeni ured, DIPU) of the Independent State of Croatia
Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: Independent State of Croatia
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Ustasha Regime
Leader: Ante Pavelic
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Demonize
Themes: Race and ethnicity, Media and information
Event: World War II
Techniques: Scapegoating Name-calling
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain in Croatia (PD-Croatia; anonymous, pre-1949), not URAA-restored
State Propaganda Office, Independent State of Croatia (1942); via Wikimedia Commons

Text on the object

Original (Croatian) · read from the image, not independently checked

ŽIDOVI
IZLOŽBA O RAZVOJU ŽIDOVSTVA
I NJIHOVOG RUŠILAČKOG RADA U
HRVATSKOJ PRIJE 10.IV.1941
RJEŠENJE ŽIDOVSKOG
PITANJA U N.D.H.
1.V.1942  1.VI.1942
UMJETNIČKI PAVILJON NA STROSSMAYEROVOM TRGU

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

JEWS
EXHIBITION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF JEWRY
AND THEIR DESTRUCTIVE WORK IN
CROATIA BEFORE 10 APRIL 1941
SOLUTION OF THE JEWISH
QUESTION IN THE N.D.H.
1 MAY 1942  1 JUNE 1942
ART PAVILION ON STROSSMAYER SQUARE

Read from the committed image. The shield carries a red-and-white checkerboard with the Ustaša 'U' emblem; it has no further text.