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The Pan-German brownshirt in the picture is Julius Streicher, 1885-1946, editor of Der Stürmer, an anti-semitic newspaper. The background of the montage is an image from a Stuttgart police photograph (from 1929) taken by Franz Roh, Foto-Auge. "An art historian, photographer, and art critic, Franz Roh deplored photographs that were derived from painting or pretended to be drawings or charcoal sketches. His writings brought him close to avant-garde artists, who inspired many of his photographs. In 1929 he co-published and co-edited a book, Foto-Auge (Photo-Eye), with graphic designer Jan Tschichold. Asserting that photographs were an effective weapon against "the mechanization of spirit" and one of the world's greatest physical, chemical, and technological wonders, Roh and Tschichold based the book on a film and photography exhibition held in Stuttgart. The book's progressive stance led to Roh's brief imprisonment by the government censors, who forbade him to continue writing. In 1946 he was awarded a professorship at the University of Munich, a position he held for the remainder of his life. " -- From http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a1479-1.html accessed 5/13/2004full view