Antisemitic books and anti-church propaganda, 1937
A stall of the 'Großdeutsche Buchhandlung' sells antisemitic books and postcards of the Führer, and a shop-window placard attacks the income of Cardinal Faulhaber.
Men perched on the roof of a wooden stand raise their arms against the grey sky; below, a stall lettered Großdeutsche Buchhandlung offers Antisemitische Bücher, souvenirs and newspapers, and official postcards of the Führer. A swastika shield in a wreath hangs on the Schöner Brunnen. In a garlanded shop window a placard headed Arme Kirchen lists, on the authority of State Minister Adolf Wagner, the annual incomes of Cardinal Archbishop Faulhaber and other churchmen, and passers-by crowd to read it.
In March 1937 Pope Pius XI had condemned the regime in the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, drafted by Faulhaber himself and read from every Catholic pulpit in Germany. The party answered with a campaign against the clergy; in Nuremberg, the city of Julius Streicher, antisemitic literature was sold openly beside it.
