Ersatzkommando Waffen SS Poster – in a nice frame – The Only one I ever sold!

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Ersatzkommando der Waffen SS (literally translates to ‘Replacement Command of the Waffen SS’), the 1943 Belgian World War II recruitment poster created by the Nazi German occupying forces, and featuring Bertau art of a giant SS symbol literally slaying a Jewish/Bolshevik red dragon, with the silhouette of a German soldier holding a grenade in the background.
Toward the end of World War II, Germany had a massive need for more soldiers, and they actively recruited in some of the countries they occupied, including Belgium.

The poster has really wild art of the SS symbol (worn by Nazi members of the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary brand of the Nazi Party that operated throughout German occupied Europe) literally stabbing a fallen red dragon, which has human remains by it, indicating that the dragon has been literally eating its victims.

The dragon has a chain around its neck with both a Jewish star and a red Communist star with a hammer and sickle emblem. If you wonder why a dragon was chosen as the symbol, it was likely partly because the dragon was associated with the beast from The Book of Revelations, and also with Satan, and of course, Germany’s greatest folk hero, Siegfried, slew a dragon, and no doubt the poster designer was looking for those parallels.

[When I tried to get White Shop going in 2020, I had a lot of posters I wanted to sell. However, there was a total lock down on the sales of Nazi, German and White posters, and even people who used to print flags and posters stopped doing that. I had one customer, a lady, who wanted it, and in the end, I printed 2 posters in different countries and to my amazement, one of the two finally made it to her and she put it on her wall in a frame. Here is a photo of the poster on her wall! It was the only poster I ever managed to successfully get to a customer! She says that visitors love it and sometimes go straight to it! I thought I’d leave this photo online because to get this printed and to get it to someone was a huge mission. It cost me more than my customer paid, but I did my best, and out of two posters printed and two posters shipped, one arrived, to our amazement! It is sitting on a wall … somewhere in the European homeland! Below is a bigger image of it! It looks great in it’s frame! I can’t get these posters printed any more, but I’m proud of this one sale! Jan]

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