Todes-Anzeige [Death Notice], an antisemitic handbill issued by the Nazi party in Austria. Printed with the annexation of Austria by the Third Reich (the "Anschluss"). [Austria, March 1938]. German.
An antisemitic handbill issued by the Nazi party in Austria, designed as a death notice (the text is surrounded by a thick black border), announcing the death of the "Austro-Jewish Empire": "'The Fatherland Front' hereby announces to its few members that the black-Jewish corpse […] has suddenly, on March 11, 1938, gone to hell". The broadside, supposedly signed by several leaders of the Fatherland Front, including the deposed Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, ends with the words "And never to be seen again!".
The Fatherland Front (Vaterländische Front), an Austrian fascist party established in May 1933, supported Austrian nationalism and independence from Nazi Germany. With the German invasion of Austria on March 12, 1938 and the annexation of Austria to the Third Reich, the party was outlawed. All traces of the old Austrian government were erased: the Austrian flag and emblem were replaced, streets and squares were renamed, and so on. At that time, the text of this handbill, tying the Jews with the old government in order to undermine its legitimacy, was published in the Austrian press.
28.5X22.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Small tears to edges and fold lines.