While anti-Jewish agitation was soft-pedaled during the campaign preceding yesterday’s elections, the balloting took on an anti-Jewish tinge when posters were displayed outside polling places and in workingmen’s quarters declaring, “Jewish anti-German propaganda prevents the attainment of peace.”
In the provinces, men were employed to carry sandwich signs bearing similar slogans.
“Hello! here is the world’s Jew-baiter Number 1,” was the salutation of Julius Streicher, anti-Semitic propagandist, when he broadcast greetings to the new Zeppelin, Hindenburg, as it circled over Nuremberg just before the elections began.
Power the news that matters to you. Before 2025 ends, help JTA's independent, award-winning newsroom document Jewish history in real-time.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
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.
