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title: '"Jüdischösterreich" forgery of an Austrian 80 Heller stamp (Austria, about 1920)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/juedischoesterreich-stamp-forgery-1920/
description: 'Two panels: at top, a detail of the genuine red Austrian 80 Heller eagle stamp reading "Deutschösterreich"; below, a pair of the same stamp on a cover…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Antisemitic forgery: an Austrian postage stamp with the country name altered to 'Jewish Austria'. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["Jüdischösterreich" forgery of an Austrian 80 Heller stamp (Austria, about 1920)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/juedischoesterreich-stamp-forgery-1920.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/juedischoesterreich-stamp-forgery-1920.jpg)

# "Jüdischösterreich" forgery of an Austrian 80 Heller stamp (Austria, about 1920)

Two panels: at top, a detail of the genuine red Austrian 80 Heller eagle stamp reading "Deutschösterreich"; below, a pair of the same stamp on a cover with the country name altered to "Jüdischösterreich" (Jewish Austria). The tell is the single swapped word: the official name of the state is replaced by an ethnic-religious label, so the state's own stamp carries the insult.

## Text on the object

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

```
[top, detail of genuine stamp]
Deutschösterreich

[bottom, two stamps on cover]
Jüdischösterreich
80
heller
```

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

```
[top] German Austria
[bottom] Jewish Austria, 80 heller
```

Read from a 960-pixel rendering of the same file. The cover postmark is partly illegible and not transcribed.

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