Text only flier advertising the sale of three antisemitic books
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The publishing house, Hammer-Verlag, was founded by Theodor Fritsch (1852-1933), a German publisher and prolific antisemitic writer, in Leipzig, Germany, in 1902. It produced German translations of"The International Je" by Henry Ford and"The Protocols of the Elders of Zio" as well as many of Fritsch’s own writings, including his"Guidebook for the Jewish Question" His son, also Theodor Fritsch (1895-1946), was a bookseller and Nazi Party member. He inherited the publishing house in 1933 after his father's death. It was in existence until 1940.
The advertising flier was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010.
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Text only flier advertising the sale of three antisemitic books
overall: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm)
Text only circular advertising three antisemitic books published by Hammer-Verlag in Leipzig, Germany, in 1936: “Guidebook for the Jewish Question” by Theodor Fritsch, “The International Jew” by Henry Ford, and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” It has an excerpt from a November 28, 1930, letter from Hitler to Fritsch that describes Fritsch’s book as essential for the Nazi movement. The publishing house, Hammer-Verlag, was founded by Fritsch (1852-1933) in Leipzig in 1902. His son, also Theodor Fritsch (1895-1946), was a bookseller and Nazi Party member. He inherited the publishing house in 1933 after his father’s death. It was in existence until 1940. Fritsch was interned in a prisoner of war camp postwar; he died there in 1946.
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Rectangular newsprint paper that has been folded in half to create a 4 page flier with German Fraktur text printed in black ink. The front cover has black rectangles at the top and bottom: the top has white swastikas and 3 lines of text; the bottom has a paragraph of text, publisher information, and a logo. The center block has 3 sections of text with book titles and descriptions. The first and second pages, inside left and right, each have a book title, a text block, and a Table of Contents. Across the bottom edge is a black rectangle and a logo. The back cover has a text block, then 6 sections of text, and at the bottom, 7 lines of text in a black border. There are pencil markings near the top edge. The typeface varies in size, with a few phrases in bold font and underlined.