Gegenauslese - Juden Uberfluten Deutschland - Deutsche Wandern Aus [Against the Elite - Jews Inundate Germany - Germans Emigrate]
- Title:
- Gegenauslese - Juden Uberfluten Deutschland - Deutsche Wandern Aus [Against the Elite - Jews Inundate Germany - Germans Emigrate]
- Alternate Title:
- Jews Inundate Germany - Germans Emigrate
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Vogel, Alfred
- Date:
- 1938
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 2236.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2236_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Bias
Pictorial
Between the Wars - Measurement:
- 27 x 36 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This is one of a series of more than 70 anti-Semitic and racist teaching posters used in German grade schools beginning in 1937. They were prepared by Alfred Vogel, a school principal and curriculum writer who believed that "the youth must know the danger of the Jews for our people in order that they will reject everything Jewish with complete unanimity." Wegner 2002, 74, 80. As a teacher, Vogel argued that traditional texts and statistics should be supplemented by forceful graphic images, using the latest techniques in illustration and color printing "to educate our young in the present and future struggle for the rejection of the Jews." Ibid. 79.
This map shows shabby Jews streaming into the country (on red arrows) from multiple directions as well-dressed German farmers and professionals flee. The text says that from 1910 to 1925, about 80,000 Jewish "strangers" became "German Reichsburgers," while about 390,000 "valuable German people were lost" to the nation. The same concept animates an 1892 illustration in the American magazine Judge, ID #1115, "Their New Jerusalem'' - immigrant Russian Jews arriving in New York, as a result of which, "Our First Families Driven Out."
Vogel's posters first appeared in 1937 as a supplement to the teacher's textbook Erblehre und Rassenkunde für die Grund-und Hauptschule [Heredity and Racial Studies for Primary and Secondary School]. They were expanded in later editions of that work and in his own books Erblehre und Rassenkunde in Bildlicher Darstellung [Heredity and Racial Studies in Pictorial Representation] (1938) and Erblehre, Abstammungs- und Rassenkunde in Bildlicher Darstellung [Heredity, Pedigree and Racial Studies in Pictorial Representation] (1939). In every case, the plates were issued loose for more convenient use by teachers.
For another of Vogel's anti-Semitic maps, see ID #2444, "Juden-Freimaureirei. Weltpolitik - Weltrevolution" [Jews - Freemasons. World Politics - World Revolution] (1939).
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Vogel, Alfred. 1938. Erblehre und Rassenkunde für die Grund-und Hauptschule [Heredity and Racial Studies for Primary and Secondary School]. Stuttgart: Verlag für Nationale Literatur Gebr. Rath.
- Repository:
- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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