Jews out! Antisemitic postcard. Leipzig, early 20th century

Jews out! Antisemitic postcard. Leipzig, early 20th century

Leipzig, evening, the sun sets through the window, on the top left is the sign: "A place for the night for fair guests - 8 marks." The owner of the inn holds a flashlight and asks the Jewish inn guests: 'Please sit down' when she points to a pile of straw with her finger. The inn is already full of guests at this time, the Jews are also asking for a place, but the other guests are asking them to leave. Next to the pile of straw on which a man is lying, appears the inscription: JUDEN RAUS - 'Jews out' (the famous phrase used by the Nazis against the Jews during their concentration for deportation), and the person sitting on it waves his finger 'out'. The guest sitting on the right waves a boot aimed at flying towards the unwanted Jews. The Jews, for their part, are trying to seduce the landlady with gold and diamonds in their possession, to stay. Paradoxically the Jews hold gold and diamonds but are dressed in simple and worn clothes, on the left can seen a dog pulling a bone out of the Jew's pocket. Although the assumption that Jews had more money and gold in their pockets than other peoples was exaggerated, there is a historical reason: since the Middle Ages Jews were forbidden to own land and real estate or join guilds, and were constantly subject to sudden expulsion from the cities and countries in which they lived. So they kept gold, diamonds, and other jewelry, in order to survive in other lands to which they were deported.

Published by Reinhold Knobbe, Leipzig, early 20th century. Good condition.