The Racial Composition of the Jews Instructional poster showing that Jews are a combination of African and Middle Eastern races
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)
Creator(s)
- Alfred Vogel (Author)
- Verlag fur nationale Literatur Gebr. Rath (Publisher)
Archival History
The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Scope and Content
Educational Poster showing that Jews are a mixture of several non-European races and are therefore inferior to other purebred races. It is from a portfolio of teaching panels designed by Alfred Vogel, a school headmaster and Nazi Party member, to instruct students on the superiority of the Aryan race, the virtue of racial purity, and the burden that Jews, as well as the handicapped, mentally ill, and unfit, place on society. For Hitler's government, the indoctrination of children through the required teaching of Nazi ideology was a powerful tool. The teaching of eugenics and racial biology began in primary school. Vogel's series provided illustrated aids on its key aspects, showing in simple pictures the urgency of the Jewish threat, the danger of racial miscegenation, or mixing of races, and how the pure breed will always be strongest, and mixed breeds must be eliminated.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Poster on cardstock with the title phrase: Die rassische Zusammensetzung der Juden [The Racial Composition of the Jews]. Center right is a drawing of a stereotypically Jewish man’s face, with a big nose and long side locks and beard, captioned: Jude [Jew] within a circle. It is connected by arrows to 4 heads: above, captioned (?) a balding man with a huge hooked nose in left profile, below on the right is man with a short beard captioned Orientale / Nomade [oriental nomad], below on the left is a man with a mustache and combination headband and necklace in right profile captioned Hamite [Hamite], and bottom left is a stereotypical African man with black hair captioned Neger [Negro]. The heads are arranged on an outlined map of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The text is German Fraktur with the title overtop and a quote on the left side. This poster is no. 55 in Vogel's series, and 1 of 9 in collection 1990.120
Genre
- Posters
- Object