This former Austrian capital, where Chancellor Adolf Hitler first developed his violent hatred of Jews, is now the scene of the “Eternal Jew” exhibition which has already been shown in most of the larger german cities.
The exhibit, however, has some new features specially designed for Austrians, including photographs of former Austrian officials who were placed by the Nazis in the Dachau concentration camp.
An immense banner over these photographs bears the line: “Jews and their flunkeys spending the summer vacation at Dachau.”
At the entrance to the exhibition, which opened a few days ago in the hall of the former Northwest Railway Station, is an inscription from Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf.” This reads: “It was in Vienna that I became a fanatical anti-Semite.”
Some of the most prominent figures in the world of art, literature and music are pilloried by gross caricatures and banners. One exhibit attempts to demonstrate “The decadence of the Roman Empire under the Jewish emperors Caracalla, Alexander severus and Septimius Severus.”
Karl Marx, outstanding Socialist theorist, is one of the chief butts of the Nazi attacks, along with bolshevism as a whole.
Henrich Heine, famous German poet, is also condemned as a “baptized Jew” although his poem “The Lorelei” is still taught in German schools, being described to pupils as the work of an “unknown author.”
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