What is the truth? Antisemitic poster - Erich Ludendorff. Munich, early 1930s

What is the truth? Antisemitic poster - Erich Ludendorff. Munich, early 1930s

Antisemitic double-sided poster praising the words of Erich Ludendorff, who identified the Jesuits, Jews, and Freemasons as the common enemies of Germany. Munich, early 1930s.

The poster publicizes quotes from the writings of the antisemite Erich Ludendorff, which were published at that time, especially from the book "The Mystery of the Jesuit Power and its End", which attacks the Christian church and the way it educates, marking it together with the Jews and Freemasons as enemies of Germany. The poster goes against the Jesuit order, claiming that its capital is a capitalist world power even greater than that of the Jews and Freemasons, intended to serve only its own needs. It claims that the capital held by the cathedrals, and their control of the capital market, gives them unlimited power which poses a danger to Germany, and that the time has come to put an end to the unlimited power of the Jesuits, Jews and Freemasons.

Erich Ludendorff [1865-1937]: Extreme nationalist, German general, one of Germany's leaders in World War I. After World War I he created the myth that Germany could have won the war, but the activities of internal traitors, especially the Jews who "stabbed Germany in the back", led to Germany's defeat in the war. In 1923 he made himself available to Adolf Hitler in the Beer Hall Putsch, in which Hitler and his supporters tried to seize control of the state of Bavaria and overthrow the legitimate German government. His standing alongside Hitler helped legitimize Hitler, who until then was an obscure speaker with a questionable past, and now stood side by side with Germany's most famous war hero. After the putsch and the dissolution of the Nazi party he was elected to the Reichstag as a representative of the National Socialist Freedom Movement in 1924 and held this position until 1928.

After 1928 he essentially retired from political activity. Under the influence of his second wife, Mathilde von Kemnitz, whom he married in 1926, he developed a radical ideology that the Jews, Christians and Freemasons were responsible for the world's misfortunes. To spread this doctrine he founded the "Bund für Gotteserkenntnis" ("League for the Knowledge of God"), which was a small, esoteric society, remnants of which still exist today. In his later years, Ludendorff changed his mind about Hitler and on February 1, 1933, two days after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, Ludendorff sent a letter to President Hindenburg warning him about Hitler, writing: "I hereby prophesy to you that this man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation into inconceivable misery. Future generations will curse you in your grave for this deed". In his final years he was considered eccentric.

[1] leaf printed on both sides. 31x23 cm. Fold marks. Good condition.