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Poster Stamps Printed by the Deutscher Schutz- und Trutzbund, Hamburg, before 1922
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Deutscher Schutz- und Trutzbund
Institute for the History of the German Jews
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The collection of Hamburg’s Research Centre for Contemporary History
Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte contains numerous examples of
antisemitic poster stamps printed from 1919 to 1922 by the large
organization German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation
(DSTB) Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund . They were an
expression of a new strategy of street agitation utilizing mass
communication media such as stamps, broadsheets, and flyers. One of
their creators was (DSTB) chief executive Alfred Roth. In the first
six months of 1920 alone, (DSTB) local chapters and their supporters
distributed more than two million flyers nationwide and pasted 4.4
million poster stamps. These were produced in Hamburg and were mostly
rectangular in shape (their usual size was 5 x 3-4 cm). They attracted
attention by their use of color and graphic elements. The poster
stamps appeared – often pasted anonymously – on street lamps,
advertising columns, at train stations or on shop windows as well as
stuck onto envelopes. Their broad spectrum of anti-Jewish messages
appealed to different target groups within German society. The
beige-colored poster stamp quotes a polemical remark by reformer
Martin Luther in order to reach the Protestant milieu. The stamp
reading “A fortune of 60 billion…” attacks the workers’
parties for supposedly protecting Jewish bankers from nationalization.
The red stamp reading “Jews and agents of Jewry [Judentzer]…”
was meant to warn the national bourgeoisie against voting for
democratic and socialist parties while the blue stamp employs a
militant phrase emphasizing the dichotomy of “Germanness” and
Judaism in order to warn of the international enemy already in the
country.
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