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February 18, 2025

Pre-War Germany’s Most Beloved Jewish Artist

Walter Trier: cartoonist, illustrator of children’s books, and anti-Nazi propagandist.

Born in Prague, and having moved to Berlin at age twenty, the Jewish cartoonist and illustrator Walter Trier was by the early 1930s one of Germany’s most popular artists. His early works, writes Miryam Zakheim,

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