The microscope reveals symbols for the British pound and the American dollar, and for Jews, communists, and homosexuals (triangles).
The poem at the bottom reads:
Infectious Germs
With his poison, the Jew destroys
The sluggish blood of weaker peoples;
So that a diagnosis arises,
Of swift degeneration.
With us, however, the case is different:
The blood is pure; we are healthy!
(From Der Stürmer, April 15, 1943, p. 1.)
My rough count for each symbol: British pound (5), American dollar (5), Jews (28), communists (5 hammer/sickles and 2 stars), and homosexuals (15).
(Does that mean the Nazis’ worst nightmare would be a gay Jewish capitalist?)
Sources:
The poem and image are from “Metaphors, Fantasy & the Social Construction of Reality” by Richard A. Koenigsberg.
The image is from Robert Proctor’s Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis.
Also:
An earlier post on “Dr. Franz Hamburger and the Nazi collectivizing of reproduction.”
My fuller treatment of National Socialist medicine, sex, family, and eugenic policies is in Section 16 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.
Nope, a gay Jewish Armand Hammer.
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Perfect, Neil.
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Julius Streicher, the author of this “poem” was the most rabid anti-Semite of the last century and was hanged at Nuremberg. His work was so heavy-handed that Hitler made fun of it, whilst agreeing that the Jews were responsible for Marxism, which in a defeated Germany loomed from the East to inflict Slavic values upon the (inherently superior) Teutonic folk. Americans cannot fathom the terror and disgust of that era, and hence, ignore its fanaticism. Fascism is the logical reaction to Marxism, it seems. Anti-Semitic groups were nothing new in Europe and worse in Austria than in the new “Germany”. It was systematic, however, and used considerable historical, religious, and statistical means. The student of anti-Semitism should watch carefully DER EWIGE JUDE/The Timeless Jew put forth by the German film industry (under Goebbels) which is a kind of classic similar to THE TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. There is a method in that madness!
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Fascism is the logical reaction to Marxism, it seems to the weakly learned.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATISM is the proper antidote to marxism (AKA Communism for pussies), nazism and jihadism.
And anyone who “subtly” promotes The Timeless Jew is a jerk.
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