Object numberM2004/001:003
Creator England Imperial Fascist League
DescriptionTabloid newspaper "The Fascist". Newspaper published in England by the Imperial Fascist League, “The Organ of Racial Fascism" from July 1937. The publication is a vehemently antisemitic. It provides an example of the British Fascist movement in pre-World War II Britain.
The front page has a cartoon and article about the Spanish civil war. There is a notice on the front containing a strongly antisemitic statement outline the ethos of the paper. The articles in this issue include: a page of fascist news from around the world, Germany and the Cinema, Judaisation through the Medium of Theological Students, Under the Five-pointed Star (which is mainly about Jews and freemasons), His Majesty’s New Sub-Government (which shows British politicians ties to Jews), The Happy Slave…A Day in a German Worker’s Life, The Secret Jew and Only the Aryans Can Live Up to Their Own Standards.
After the publisher Arnold Leese visited Germany and met Julius Streicher let to the remodelling of his Journal The Fascist along the lines of Der Strumer. His anti-Semitism became firmly racialist in outlook as he came to speak and write of the Aryan race as the creator of civilisation and culture and claimed that the Aryan was in a permanent struggle with the Jew, the outcome of which would determine the future completely.
The front page has a cartoon and article about the Spanish civil war. There is a notice on the front containing a strongly antisemitic statement outline the ethos of the paper. The articles in this issue include: a page of fascist news from around the world, Germany and the Cinema, Judaisation through the Medium of Theological Students, Under the Five-pointed Star (which is mainly about Jews and freemasons), His Majesty’s New Sub-Government (which shows British politicians ties to Jews), The Happy Slave…A Day in a German Worker’s Life, The Secret Jew and Only the Aryans Can Live Up to Their Own Standards.
After the publisher Arnold Leese visited Germany and met Julius Streicher let to the remodelling of his Journal The Fascist along the lines of Der Strumer. His anti-Semitism became firmly racialist in outlook as he came to speak and write of the Aryan race as the creator of civilisation and culture and claimed that the Aryan was in a permanent struggle with the Jew, the outcome of which would determine the future completely.
Production placeLondon, England
Production date 1937-07
SubjectFascists, antisemitism, Holocaust
Object namenewspapers
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 445.00 mm
height: 285.00 mm
Language
- English
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Michael Redhill