Finding that anti-Semitic pogrom propaganda is a well-paying business, many private publishers have begun this week to emulate the notorious Der Stuermer, Julius Streicher’s paper, and publish weeklies devoted exclusively to poisoning the atmosphere with intensified, anti-Jewish libelous stories.
A number of publications, exceeding a dozen, are displayed on street corners and attract attention by their heavy-type anti-Semitic headlines. The streamers compete with one another in the wildest agitation against the Jews.
The latest addition to this collection of anti-Jewish publications is an assertion that Germany’s struggle is to “outroot from Germany any favorable feelings toward the Jews”. One periodical declares that there are still Germans who argue that the Jews are after all human beings.
One newspaper, by means of composite photographs, is attempting to prove to readers that the idea that Jews are human beings is untrue and that the delusion should be discarded.
The Deutsches Volk, a German Catholic organ published in Cologne, in an article that is far from pro-Jewish, demands at least national minority rights for German Jewry. The article demands that Germany recognize specific national Jewish interests, and treat the Jewish people as a national minority, granting cultural autonomy and similar rights, such as, the article declares, were possessed by the Jews in the ancient church states.
At the same time the paper justifies in certain circumstances the deprivation of political rights for national minorities. It adds however, that the fight should be conducted against orthodox and liberal Jews but not against those Jews who are engaged in furthering Christian German culture.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
