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The French 'L'Assiette au Beurre visions' newspaper issue - Large antisemitic cartoon. France, 1903

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The L'Assiette issue in Beurre visions PAR CAMARA. France, September 1903 (Issue 127). The title page of the issue presents a cartoon of a Jew hugging the earth with his blood-dripping arms, and the description: "L'AMBITION" - the ambitious. On each page is a large cartoon depicted with a derogatory word at the bottom.

The cartoon in which the Jew appears in long arms dripping blood encircling the earth as a threat to take over the world appeared on various advertising platforms in the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th century. On October 28, 1893, the title page of Edouard Drumont's anti-Semitic "La Libre Parole" featured a caricature of a Jew holding the earth in his arms and the anti-Semitic inscription: "Their homeland". Issue number 180 of the French weekly "Le Rire" dated April 16, 1898 featured a cartoon of Baron Rothschild with a golden calf crown, embracing the world with threatening hands.
In 1901, the German 'Kikeriki' presented a mythological monster in the form of a Jew embracing the earth in his arms. The cover of the French edition of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" published in 1934 showed a Jew with arms dripping with blood hugging the earth in his hands with groaning skeletons beneath symbolizing the nations of the world. Following these, the Nazi propagandists made use of this cartoon to spread Jewish hatred, and presented it in various forms, repeatedly in the Nazi Der Stürmer and in the anti-Semitic children's literature by Julius Streicher.

[15] p. Complete issue. Each page has a large cartoon over an entire page. Good Condition.

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46. The French 'L'Assiette au Beurre visions' newspaper issue - Large antisemitic cartoon. France, 1903