Object numberM2004/001:004
Creator England Imperial Fascist League
DescriptionTabloid newspaper "The Fascist". Newspaper published in England by the Imperial Fascist League, “The Organ of Racial Fascism" from October 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 an article commending Australia’s “racial virtues” in limiting immigration. There is a notice on the front containing a strongly antisemitic statement outline the ethos of the paper. The main article in the paper is “The Division of Ireland” which blames the Jews for the Irish free state.
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 an article commending Australia’s “racial virtues” in limiting immigration. There is a notice on the front containing a strongly antisemitic statement outline the ethos of the paper. The main article in the paper is “The Division of Ireland” which blames the Jews for the Irish free state.
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 1937-10
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