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EARLY ANTI-SEMITIC USE OF A SWASTIKA - Early German anti-Semitic postcard, 1912, bears a lengthy quote from Dr. Heinrich Pudor (1865-1943), a German Volkish-nationalist. The card, which bears a pinwheel swastika and hammer at top, reads in part: ”German Blooded! Don't become lost by the Jews! Don't buy from Jews!...Use neither Jewish lawyers nor doctors!...Stop every Jewish newspaper!...Be true to your People and your Blood!...” Some soiling at bottom. Pudor's use here of a swastika pre-dates its adoption by the NSDAP by eight years. From 1891 to 1898 Pudor was married to a Jew, but from 1912, on his writings were almost entirely anti-Semitic in nature. In September 1933, Pudor's new magazine, the Swastika, was banned for criticizing the cult of Hitler and the party dictatorship of the NSDAP.