'Verses like dynamite': anti-Nazi magazine trove resurfaces

The title of the exhibition 'My Verses Are Like Dynamite', at the Jewish Museum Berlin, is taken from one of the anti-fascist issues produced by Bloch between August 1943 and April 1945. Photo: AFP

A Nazi henchman as a drooling gorilla with a swastika armband. Adolf Hitler as a dancing clown. Cheeky send-ups of Joseph Goebbels's lies.

A treasure trove of defiant satire made by Jewish refugee Curt Bloch while in hiding from the Nazis in a Dutch attic has recently gone on display for the first time, eight decades after he created his astonishingly daring magazine.