"Grosz began to make drawings of people that illustrated the various forms of social violence: drunkards, people vomiting, men swearing at the moon with a clenched fist, murderers who played cards on top of a box in which their victim's corpse is visible… In 1928 Grosz published a drawing in a very simple, expressive style with the title "Christ with gas mask." This theme had long occupied him, and he was trying to imagine how Jesus could be portrayed as a person of his times. He chose to represent the crucified Jesus as a victim of the times, wearing boots and a gas mask, a cross in his hand. At the margin of the drawing is written, "Shut up and keep serving." The blasphemy trial resulted when the image was published. The decision on the case came in three parts: first a fine, then exoneration, and finally the annulment of the exoneration. A final decision was not reached because Grosz fled to the United States in 1933. His works were exhibited by the National Socialists as "degenerate art." https://en.qantara.de/content/christianity-and-blasphemy-the-right-to-slander-god