This particular pencil sketch is one of the more troubling images Helmut Hirsch depicted. On the back of the sketch, the following text appears. "Der Volksschullehrer hat sich im Park erhängt 1934" (The elementary school teacher handed himself in the Park). This image shows the growing angst in Germany in the mid-1930s. In the 1930s there was a rise of suicides in Germany that resulted from the economic and political crisis of the era.