The Eternal Jew Antisemitic Book – Item 115114

Extremely rare Third Reich booklet entitled “The Eternal Jew”. That was sold at the German Museum library in Munich alongside the exhibition held there in 1938. Due to the subject at the end of WWII most of the copies were destroyed so as to distance owners from the persecution of the jews. Good overall condition with just punch hole to top corner from file.

Note:  The Eternal Jew was the title of an exhibition of antisemitism  displayed at the Library of the German Museum  in Munich  from 8 November 1937 to 31 January 1938. The displays, with photographs and caricatures, focused on antisemitic canards   falsely accusing  Jews of negatively affecting Nazi Germany through Cultural Bolshevism, exemplified in the exhibition poster presenting a kaftan-wearing “eastern” Jew holding gold coins in one hand and a whip in the other. The exhibition attracted 412,300 visitors, over 5,000 per day.

The exhibition was sponsored by Joseph Goebbels , the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, who held well-known extreme antisemitic opinions.