Object numberM2004/001:008
Creator England Imperial Fascist League
DescriptionTabloid newspaper "The Fascist". Newspaper published in England by the Imperial Fascist League, “The Organ of Racial Fascism" from August 1939. 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 London Newspapers and Their Control which is responding to counter-arguments (in print and in a pamphlet) against the Imperial Fascist League’s allegations. According to the publishers this is because they are controlled by Jews. There is also an article about Jews smuggling other Jews into Palestine with the help of British officials (which they control).
Inside there is the general survey of news from around the world (with a Fascist slant) and the following articles: Ritual Murder Notes and Danzig and the Peace of Europe: The “Balance of Power” Fiction.
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 London Newspapers and Their Control which is responding to counter-arguments (in print and in a pamphlet) against the Imperial Fascist League’s allegations. According to the publishers this is because they are controlled by Jews. There is also an article about Jews smuggling other Jews into Palestine with the help of British officials (which they control).
Inside there is the general survey of news from around the world (with a Fascist slant) and the following articles: Ritual Murder Notes and Danzig and the Peace of Europe: The “Balance of Power” Fiction.
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