Special exhibition: Ulrich Becher
Ulrich Becher: Poor Europe
Special exhibition: Ulrich Becher
![Book cover: Ulrich Becher, Männer machen Fehler [Men Make Mistakes].](/KIE/Content/EN/SpecialExhibitions/UlrichBecher-en/Images/Objects/maenner-machen-fehler.jpg?__blob=thumbnail&v=3 "Book cover: Ulrich Becher, Männer machen Fehler [Men Make Mistakes].")
Ulrich Becher: Poor Europe
It was in November 1936 that Benito Mussolini first described the alliance between Germany and Italy as the “Rome – Berlin Axis”. The alliance between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy was characterised by an anti-Communist policy oriented on expansion. Ulrich Becher captured this terrifying pact in a drawing.
The coloured pen-and-ink sketch drawn on the back of a sheet of the business letterhead used by his father, lawyer Richard Becher, shows Mussolini with his right arm raised in greeting and Hitler behind him. The two dictators are also identified by a fasces and swastika respectively. Ulrich Becher named this undated drawing “Poor Europe”.
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