Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt [“Jewish News Gazette.”] Collection of 65 issues of the Vienna edition. Numbers 9-12 (Jan.-Feb. 1940) and numbers 42-105 (May-Dec. 1940).

(HOLOCAUST)

Jüdischer Kulturbund in Deutschland

Vienna

1940

Illustrated. Includes many advertisements and numerous personal family announcements.

Following the Kristallnacht pogroms of November 1938, Jewish life in Germany and Austria was even further curtailed and all remaining Jewish newspapers were shut down by the Nazi government. In their place, the Nazis ordered the creation of a single, new Jewish newspaper, “Das Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt,” that would be directly under Gestapo control. It was published concurrently in Berlin, Vienna and Prague and was occupied to a large extent with promoting emigration and announcing the ever-increasing number of anti-Semitic discriminations, orders and exclusions imposed by the Reich government. In a ghoulish twist of Nazi irony, Gentiles were forbidden from reading the Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt yet the newspaper’s targeted readership, the Jews, were literally hounded to their deaths by the very authorities who presided over the newspaper’s ownership! See Reiner Burger, Von Goebbels Gnaden: “Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt” 1938-1943 (2001).