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A. Paul Weber (1893 – 1980)
A. Paul Weber was born in 1893 in Arnstadt (Thüringen), Germany.
In 1928 Weber became a member of a political circle opposing Hitler and National Socialism, which was centred around Ernst Niekisch. Weber illustrated books and periodicals for the Widerstands-Verlag (Resistance Press). The journals were banned and Weber was imprisoned by the Nazis from July to December 1937.
In 1939/1940 Weber produced a series of over one hundred sketches and drawings named The Britische Bilder (The British Pictures) to protest against Imperialism and Colonialism - in this case, British Imperialism. He wanted to show that only a small group of people benefited from the profits of the empire while the majority of the people lived in bitter poverty. These pictures conformed to the ideas of the Widerstand circle, but were misused by National Socialist propaganda against Britain in 1941.
After the Second World War he continued to be a social commentator, with his criticism covering politics, justice, militarism, environmental pollution, inhumanity, medicine and fanaticism in sports. In 1980, Weber died at the age of 87 in Schretstaken, a small village near Ratzeburg, where he had lived since 1936.
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