Juden-Freimaureirei. Weltpolitik - Weltrevolution. [Jews - Freemasons. World Politics - World Revolution.]
- Title:
- Juden-Freimaureirei. Weltpolitik - Weltrevolution. [Jews - Freemasons. World Politics - World Revolution.]
- Alternate Title:
- [Jews - Freemasons. World Politics - World Revolution.]
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Vogel, Alfred
- Date:
- 1939
- Posted Date:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2444.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2444_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Between the Wars
Bias
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 36 x 26 (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 attacks the alleged revolutionary conspiracy between Jews and Freemasons. At the top are symbols of Judaism (the temple and Star of David) and of Freemasonry (the compass at 33 degrees and the white leather apron). Across the map of Europe are symbols of flames marking and dating more than a dozen instances of "Revolutionen!" from the French revolution of 1789 to the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and various uprisings during World War I. The League of Nations ("Volkerbund") in Geneva is marked with a red circle. The text at the foot of the poster says that Freemasonry is an international organization supporting the Jewish political aim of seizing power through world revolution.
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). Vogel's plates were issued loose for more convenient use by teachers.
For another of Vogel's anti-Semitic maps, see ID #2236, "Gegenauslese - Juden Uberfluten Deutschland - Deutsche Wandern Aus" [Against the Elite - Jews Inundate Germany - Germans Emigrate] (1938).
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Source:
- Vogel, Alfred. 1939. Erblehre, Abstammungs- und Rassenkunde in Bildlicher Darstellung [Heredity, Pedigree and Racial Studies in Pictorial Representation]. Stuttgart: Verlag für Nationale Literatur Gebr. Rath.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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