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[PROPAGANDA OF THE HOLOCAUST IN OCCUPIED LATVIA] Cianas gudro protokoli: Pilnīgs teksts un komentāri [i.e. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Full texts and Commentaries]

Liepiņš, O. [Kalnietis L.]

Riga: Ernesta Kreišmana izdevniecība, 1942. Item #1212

215 pp.: ill. 21,5x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Slightly rubbed and soiled, covers detached from the text block, minor tears of the spine, otherwise very good and clean internally.
Second enlarged edition. One of 10 000 copies. Extremely rare with no copies in Worldcat.
A wartime edition printed on the territory of the occupied Latvia that set the local population against both Jews and Bolsheviks.
Latvia became a part of Nazi’s Reichskommissariat Ostland in July 1941 and the German command created local volunteer units intended to fight against Jewish people, as well as Soviet partisans. They partially became a target due to the military occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union two years earlier.
Since the date of the occupation, the daily newspaper ‘Tēvija’ came out promoting Nazi ideology and fixing the chronicle of the anti-semitic campaign. Ernests Kreišmanis, Arturs Kroders, Andrejs Rudzis, Pauls Kovaļevskis, Jānis Vītols were positioned as publishers and editors of this periodical in turns while the publication was under the control of the Nazi party. Its circulation was about 280,000 copies and almost every issue contained extremely anti-semitic and Russophobic articles and pamphlets. Among printed materials of ‘Tēvija’ propaganda was this book by writer Olg̕erts Liepiņš (1906-1983) under pseudonym L. Kalnietis.
The book promoted the text of the most notorious document ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ in Latvian - but represented it in connection with the Soviet occupation in September 1939 - June 1941. “The experience of the Bolshevik year unequivocally introduced every Latvian to the essence of Jewry”, - the author wrote and proved further that most Bolshevik leaders were Jews. It doubled the rejection of the Soviet rule and made people turn to Nazi “liberators”.
The edition opens with a quote by Adolf Hitler and goes on with the foreword where the professor Jēkaba Vītola urged Latvians to a ruthless struggle against Jewish people and Masonry. As exemplary, the activity of Gustavs Celmiņš was mentioned. In 1932, Celmiņš founded the Latvian nationalist group Ugunskrusts and later the Perkonkrusts. He advocated a radical re-organization of society and was exiled from Latvia in 1937-1941. Returned with Nazis, he actively participated in the anti-semitic campaign.
Illustrations of this book feature both related to the Protocols figures and well-known Jewish people: Sergius Nilus, Maurice Joly, Ahad Ha’am, Theodor Herzl, Karl Marx, Bolshevik leaders and their facsimile signatures, as well as Jewish workers greeting Red Army soldiers and socialist demonstrations in 1940. Apart from them, the book included a Jewish caricature of Nicolas II as a sacrificial rooster printed on a New Year postcard and a symbolic map showing stages of the expansion of the Jewish power throughout Europe and indicating cities in Russian.

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