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The New York World’s Fair opened in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens on April 30, 1939. Dedicated to the optimistic theme “The World of Tomorrow,” the Fair was to have included a German pavilion, but mounting opposition coalesced around Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939, terminating German involvement. As a substitute, a “Germans-in-Exile” pavilion was proposed, to be named “Freedom Pavilion: Germany Yesterday—Germany Tomorrow.” Displays—including Lester Beall’s poster maquette reproduced here—were prepared for this substitute pavilion, but it, too, was ultimately abandoned due to the controversy that surrounded it.
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