Content note: Display board from the 1938 antisemitic exhibition 'Der ewige Jude' with drawn caricatures under the heading 'Jüdische Drückebergerei und Betriebsamkeit im Weltkrieg'. This object is shown as it was published. Why

Ausstellung »Der ewige Jude«: Schautafel »Jüdische Drückebergerei und Betriebsamkeit im Weltkrieg«

A display board from the exhibition headed 'Jüdische Drückebergerei und Betriebsamkeit im Weltkrieg' shows three drawn strips, 'Juden an der Front', 'Juden in der Etappe' and 'Juden im Hinterland', each depicting caricatured Jewish figures as idle or profiteering. A neighbouring chart on the left counts Jews in Vienna.

Date: November 1938
Period: Interwar
Made by: Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP (exhibition »Der ewige Jude«, Berlin Reichstag venue)
Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: Nazi Germany
Medium: Photograph
Issuer type: Party
Regime: Nazi Germany
Leader: Adolf Hitler
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Demonize
Themes: Race and ethnicity, War and the military
Event: Der Ewige Jude Exhibition
Techniques: Scapegoating Card stacking
Regime: Nazi Germany
Leader: Adolf Hitler
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1989-071-05), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (German Federal Archives), as stated on the Commons file page
Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1989-071-05 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

JÜDISCHE DRÜCKEBERGEREI UND BETRIEBSAMKEIT
IM WELTKRIEG
JUDEN AN DER FRONT
JUDEN IN DER ETAPPE
JUDEN IM HINTERLAND
[left panel:] 1919 in Wien [...] sind Juden [...] 1932-1937
Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1989-071-05
Foto: o.Ang. | November 1938

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

JEWISH SHIRKING AND BUSTLING ACTIVITY
IN THE WORLD WAR
JEWS AT THE FRONT
JEWS IN THE REAR (ETAPPE)
JEWS IN THE HINTERLAND
[left panel:] 1919 in Vienna [...] are Jews [...] 1932-1937
Federal Archives, Image 146-1989-071-05
Photo: no author given | November 1938

The left panel is cut off at the print edge and only fragments are legible; the last two lines are the archive's own credit strip.