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A rare anti-Semitic issue of the German Labor Front - following the assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff, head of the Swiss branch of the Nazi Party - March 1936 - A rare anti-Semitic issue of Gemeinschaft deutscher Arbeitsopfer: “Community of German Labor Victims.” Subtitle: Mitteilungsblatt der Deutschen Arbeitsfront für die Opfer der Arbeit - information bulletin of the German Labor Front for labor victims. Berlin, March 1936 - accusations against the Jews following the assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff, head of the Swiss branch of the Nazi Party. An official publication of the Nazi organization Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) – “German Labor Front.” On the title page, a “casual conversation” between two elderly German women about the shortage of basic food products. This is followed by a brief summary of the achievements of German athletes in the Berlin Olympics, which had concluded shortly beforehand. Thereafter, under the heading: “A Victim of Foreign Words of Hatred, ” an unprecedented attack on the Jewish press and on the Jewish “murderers”: “Objectively, the campaign of defamation conducted by the Marxist Jewish press clique abroad achieves nothing, since respect for the new Germany increases with every day of German achievements. And only in recent weeks, the respectable foreign newspapers are filled with praise for German work and achievements... Nevertheless, the thread of lies continues without pause...”. The issue describes the affair of the murder of the head of the Swiss branch of the Nazi Party (NSDAP Auslandorganisation) in Switzerland, Wilhelm Gustloff, by a Jew: “Marxist Jewish hatred turned entirely toward the leader of the Nazi regional group, Gustloff, and intensified as it became clear that not the slightest trace of honor or proper conduct could be found against this particular German man. The bullet of the cowardly murderer, a Jew, brought a premature end to the life of a brave soldier of Adolf Hitler. Germany mourned with all its heart, and the world trembled with disgust and rage. Now Gustloff rests on German soil, but even the natural reverence for the dead did not bring the murderers to rest. His widow and the friends of the deceased continued to receive threatening letters. Apart from this senseless wickedness, this unprecedented inhumanity, the question is justified whether Switzerland did not act logically and precisely when it sought to exert stronger influence in certain Marxist circles? We have no right to doubt the objectivity of Swiss judges and officials, but one victim seems sufficient to us. The heart is the source of all guilt.” Thereafter follow extensive articles on the ways to join the “German Labor Front, ” promises of economic welfare for the citizens of Germany in the “New Reich, ” a passage about Adolf Hitler as the savior of Germany and the German worker, and more. Wilhelm Gustloff was a senior German Nazi activist who operated in Switzerland during the 1930s. He headed the Swiss branch of the Nazi Party (NSDAP Auslandorganisation) - the organization that managed the party’s activities outside Germany. As part of his role, he was engaged in Nazi propaganda and in disseminating anti-Semitic ideology among Germans living in Switzerland. On February 4, 1936, he was murdered in the city of Davos, Switzerland, by David Frankfurter, a Jewish student born in Yugoslavia. Frankfurter shot him to death in his home. During his interrogation, he stated that he acted out of moral and personal motives, out of deep shock at the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. The Nazi regime exploited the event for extensive anti-Semitic propaganda, presenting Gustloff as a “martyr” of the Nazi movement. The event became a central propaganda tool used by the Nazis to intensify incitement against Jews, especially in the years preceding World War II. The German Labor Front was the organization that replaced all independent labor unions in 1933 following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and became the sole labor organization in Nazi Germany. The DAF was not a genuine labor union but rather a state body intended to control workers, disseminate Nazi propaganda, and integrate the working class into the framework of the regime’s ideology. 12 pages. Complete issue. Stains. Good condition.