Below are three thumbnails of cards depicting German anti-Semitism. The first card depicts caricatures of Jews in Karlsbad and was mailed in 1905. The second depicts a caricature of a Jew in Marienbad. The third is a 1938 anti-Semitic postcard from the Nazi era. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcards" in the left frame to return.
During the hyperinflation period of the 1920's, various German cities issued emergency money ("Notegeld". Many of these notes contained anti-Semitic slogans. Below are three thumbnails of such Notegeld. The first Notegeld is from the town of Ribnitz; the second is from the town of Brakel; and the third is from the town of Beverungen. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Notegeld" in the left frame to return.
In 1937, the Nazis organized a traveling exhibition featuring virulent anti-Semitic materials under the title "Der Ewige Jude" ("The Eternal Jew"). This exhibition first opened in the Library of the German Museum in Munich on November 8, 1937, and ended on January 31, 1938. The exhibition moved to Vienna for August 2 through October 23, 1938, and then to Berlin from November 12, 1938 through January 31, 1939. Below are three thumbnails pertaining to the Vienna exhibition. The first is a picture postcard showing the outside of the exhibition hall featuring, over the entranceway, a vulgar image of a Jew; the second is souvenir postcard issued in conjunction with the exhibition showing the image over the entranceway; and the third is back of the souvenir postcard showing the special cancellations prepared by the postal authorities for the exhibition. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Der Ewige Jude" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of 13 labels: the first 11 are anti-semitic labels issued by the political organization "Deutsch Voelkischer Schutz Und Trutzbund" prior to 1920; and the last two are labels combating anti-semitism. These labels were adhered to mail. The translations are as follows: (1) "30 million marks were given by the Russian Jew Joffe in Berlin to the German Jews Cohn and Hasse. They used this to undermine the German victory (WWI). This is how it came to the Jewish peace"; (2) "Jews and Jew lovers don't belong in the German Parliment. Therefore reject those election proposals on which their names appear"; (3) "43% of the lawyers are Jews, but their number only represents 1% of the population. We want to arrive at healthier proportions"; (4) "In the National Assembly, there are 425 German elected officials. Forty-two are Jewish officials which is 10% of the total, whereas they only represent 1% of the population"; (5) "One Jew, Rabbi Moritz Rappaport, finally came to the right insight, his quote: '...justified and quite understandable is the hatred of the Jews...'"; (6) "LaSalle says '...the workers organizations have to keep away from the Capitalists and the Jews wherever they appear as heads and leaders, as they advance their own (Jewish) objectives...'"; (7) "Workers are your women dressed so fancy and well as the women of Jewish leaders"; (8) "15% of the university teachers are Jews, but according to the population statistics only one German in a hundred is a Jew. We demand German teachers for German students"; (9) "Why do the workers of the world tolerate Jews as their leaders when they have never worked physically"; (10) "Don't read any Jewish publications"; (11) "Don't buy from Jews"; (12) "Hate of Jews originates from envy- stupidity- incompetence"; and (13) "The greatest evil is the hate for Jews". Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Labels" in the left frame to return.
Schwab, Echoes That Remain, P. 3
Encyclopedia Judaica, CD-Rom Edition, Keter Publishing
Harper, Philately of the Third Reich, Postage and Propoganda, P. 126-27
Copyright © 2000 Edward Victor