La Difesa della Razza - Antisemitic Italian Magazine. Italy, 1938

La Difesa della Razza - Antisemitic Italian Magazine. Italy, 1938

An issue of the anti-Semitic magazine "La Difesa della Razza" - 'Defense of the Race'. Italy - October 5, 1938 - Full of articles, cartoons, pictures, diagrams, and anti-Semitic analyzes that present the Jew as the enemy of humanity, and warn against Jewish expansion in Europe and throughout the world.

In the upper part of the cover of the issue appears the anti-Semitic inscription: "Be human and not stupid sheep, so that the Jew among you will not be mocked" (a quote that appeared regularly on the covers of the issues).

On the cover of the issue is a picture of a stereotypical Jewish figure standing behind a curtain and an anti-Semitic inscription: "The men who stand forever behind the curtain, what I call bourgeois morality" (from an anti-Semitic film screened in Germany in the 1930s). The main anti-Semitic article deals with the "distribution of the Jew on the five continents", and states that there are 17 million Jews worldwide, while presenting charts of the number of Jews in various cities in Europe and the United States. The author shows how the relative number of Jews is much greater on the European continent compared to the rest of the world, and explains that Europe is better for Jews to live in because the laws in European countries are convenient for them to take advantage of the countries in which they live economically, and emphasizes the importance of the "Nuremberg Laws" against the Jews that were enacted in Germany Exclude the Jews from all areas of society. Another article deals with the demography of the Jews in the world and the danger of "Jewish expansion", and a search for Jewish surnames, as well as an attempt to trace mixed marriages of Jews according to different regions. Another article under the title "Brotherhood of Hatred" presents a large anti-Semitic cartoon in which the Jew appears with a stereotypical face as the enemy of civilized humanity and is accompanied by falsified quotes from Jewish sources as if Judaism intends to take over the world. Also apear an article dealing with the "Talmud" - in which the writer twists articles that appear in the Talmud in an attempt to present to the reader an image as if the Jewish sources oblige the Jew to exploit, take control, and harm the nations of the world. Also in this article is a large anti-Semitic cartoon in which a Talmudic Jew is seen next to a Jewish gentleman in an attempt to compare the image As if the financial ruling Jewish gentleman found his bourgeois way in the Jewish sources. Another article brings anti-Semitic quotes from the well-known German thinkers Kant, Fichte, Schopenhauer, and Herder characterizing the "Jewish problem" as a problem of race and defining the Jews as a "parasitic people", In addition it was written about genetic diseases appears Based on the race theory that characterizes between "superior" races and "inferior" races, this article presents a photograph of a boy in the Hitler Youth next to an African boy, an anti-Semitic article under the title "The People of Israel and the Freemasons" that describes the ability of the Jewish people to take over other nations without the use of weapons Through the 'Masonic' lodges scattered around the world, an article attacking the theory of psychoanalysis of the Jewish Sigmund Freud, an article claiming that the Ashkenazi Jews are a fusion of Armenians with Jews, another article entitled: "A biological solution to the Jewish question", and more.

The La Difesa della Razza [Race Defense] an Italian bi-weekly published between August 1938 and June 1943, by Telesio Interlandi, published by Tumminelli in Rome (5 years in which a total of 117 issues were published), initiated by Benito Mussolini who believed in the scripture to assimilate antisemitic ideas and racism among the Italian population.The sheets constituted the main antisemitic tool of the fascist regime, designed to promote fascist racial laws in Italy. The aim was to spread a "scientific" doctrine of racial theory, and to convince Italians that colonialism, bans on intermarriage and intermarriage Anchored in the laws of nature.The magazine presented baseless ideas in support of the superiority of the Aryan race to which the Italians claimed the Italians should belong, and warned of the 'biological contamination' that might occur if the Italians mixed with the 'inferior races'. In the 'scientific' sections of the magazine, racism and anti-Semitism gained legitimacy from a medical and biological point of view, with a focus on presenting false 'genetics' theories. The magazine even deals a lot with demography in an attempt to present statistical forecasts showing the “non-Aryan” races in constant decline compared to the Aryan races. The deeper Italy went into war with the participation of the Axis powers, the more the issue officer in antisemitic propaganda, blaming the Jews for the war, and warning of the "risks" of mixing with the Jews, which could lead to "social pollution."

47 pages, 30 cm. general condition good.