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
"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.
- Date
- 1920
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Unknown (anonymous maker; not identified in the Commons record)
- Country
- Austria
- Medium
- Stamp
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- First Austrian Republic
- Leader
- Michael Mayr
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Impersonated Source falsified: fake personas, outlets or documents
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (source credited on the file page: psywar.org), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD tag; unknown author, anonymous, circa 1920, pre-1931)
Unknown author, circa 1920, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Text on the object
[top, detail of genuine stamp] Deutschösterreich [bottom, two stamps on cover] Jüdischösterreich 80 heller
[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.
