The iron broom

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The Iron Broom was an anti-Semitic magazine in Austria . The paper appeared in Vienna from 1921 , in Salzburg from 1923 and ceased to appear in 1932. The organ published by the Antisemitenbund appeared at times weekly, at times on the 5th and 20th of a month and reached a circulation of up to 6,000 copies.

Similar to the Nazi striker , the paper relied on scandalous personalized stories in which alleged sexual scandals in particular dominated the headlines and large parts of the paper's content. Even in comparison with other anti-Semitic magazines, the content was primitive and, in addition to any sex stories, consisted primarily of allegations of ritual murder and caricatures copied from German anti-Semitic papers. The paper has supported the German and Austrian NSDAP since the early 1920s and promoted Adolf Hitler in 1932 as the only German politician who openly and ruthlessly opposed the Jews.

For Salzburg, the magazine published a so-called Jewish cadastre, in which all Jewish residents of Salzburg were listed, as well as a “ Judenpranger ”, in which the names of non-Jews who bought in Jewish shops were listed. The Salzburg Festival , founded in 1920, considered the iron broom to be "Jewish". The paper launched extensive campaigns against individual artists such as Alexander Moissi and Max Reinhardt .

The motto of the paper supervised by Alois Thiel was: “The iron broom sweeps wherever it is necessary and desired. Please kindly inform us of any crap corners on which our iron broom rules. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ivar Oxaal, Michael Pollak, Gerhard Botz: Jews, Antisemitism and Culture in Vienna , Taylor & Francis, 1987, ISBN 0-7102-0899-5 , pp 163-164.
  2. ^ A b Robert Moses Shapiro: Why Didn't the Press Shout? American & International Journalism During the Holocaust , KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-88125-775-3 , pp. 273-278.
  3. ^ Albert Lichtblau : Anti-Semitism. Framework conditions and effects on the coexistence of Jews and non-Jews ( Memento from June 22, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) .
  4. ↑ Julia Schäfer: Measuring, drawn, laughed: Jewish images in popular magazines 1918–1933 , Campus Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-593-37745-4 , pp. 45–48.