Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition
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Template:Freemasonry2 Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition (Serbian: Антимасонска изложба) was exhibition which were organized German occupation forces with technical support Serbian Quisling prime minister Milan Nedić in Belgrade in the Temple of closed the Grand Lodge of Kingdom of Yugoslavia of October 22, 1941 to January 19, 1942 during the Serbian uprising in World War II.
Background
Serbian freemasons are were against all totalitarianism and dictatorship. This is especially emphasized in the time when the Masonic Lodge banned in Germany and in Austria (after the Anschluss). Then a large number of Masons from these countries, as well as from Italy and Bulgaria, was accepted and cared for in Kingdom of Yugoslavia. With approaching world war, in 1938, the Freemasons from England and the United States undertook a series of measures that would provide over Freemasonry anti-Nazi resistance in the countries that were in the way of expansion of the Third Reich.
The installation of the Duke of Kent for GM UGL of England (July 1939), as representative of the Yugoslav GL is went Stanoje Mihajlović. Mihajlović has had discussions with senior representatives of British Freemasonry on various issues. He is asked that a established an English Lodge in Belgrade, to which he received an affirmative answer. At the end of the 1939th was established an English Lodge in Belgrade, since the beginning of the 1940th the some number of Masons from various lodges received permission to join a newly created Lodge. These are did Stanoje Mihaijlović and Milan Marjanović. At the same time Vladimir Ćorović, accompanied by Dragana Milićević, incognito, is traveling to Paris and London, where he met with Albert François Lebrun and Winston Churchill.
Exhibition
In order to accomplish tasks calculated to intimidation, decapitation, and demoralization of the people, a condemning the elite of the Serbian people, which, as is persistently repeated German propaganda, worked and is working for someone else, the Anglo-Jewish and Communist interests, according to German orders established a Committee to prepare Anti-Freemason Exhibition. Committee is worked under the supervision of Hans Richter, and after his departure from Belgrade that the office took over the German military and administrative commander Harold Turner. Anti-Freemason Exhibition is opened on 22 October 1941 and coincided with the German offensive on serbian guerrilla-rebel determine. The exhibition was open until 19 January 1942, and accompanying promotional effects were intended to frighten the population of Belgrade, to deny any hope of success in countering the German military forces. Unmasking the role of Freemasonry, Jews and communists as the alleged culprits for the collapse of Yugoslavia and the plight of the Serbian people dictated is the content of the exhibits at the exhibition, to which are the citizens and school youth, guided organized and forced. The history of this period is complex, filled with mutual accusations regarding the role of perpetrators and rescuers.
The central theme was an alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic plot for world domination, similar to propaganda once put out by the Tsarist secret police before the Russian revolution in the well-known forgeries The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Besides the exhibits at the exhibition, an enormous amount of propaganda material was prepared: over 200 thousand various brochures, 60 thousand posters, 100 thousand flyers, 108 thousand of samples of 9 different types of envelopes, 176 propaganda movie clips, four different postage stamps etc.
The images on the posters shown in the exhibition were not new, and had been seen before in Germany during "The Eternal Jew" exhibitions in Munich and Vienna during 1937-1939. Serbian newspapers such as Obnova (Renewal) and Naša Borba (Our Struggle) praised this exhibit, proclaiming that Jews were the ancient enemies of the Serbian people and that Serbs should not wait for the Germans to begin the extermination of the Jews. A few months later, Serbian authorities issued postage stamps commemorating the opening of this popular exhibit. These stamps, which juxtaposed Jewish and Serbian symbols (but did not contain Nazi symbols), portrayed Judaism as the source of world evil and advocated the humiliation and violent subjugation of Jews. Of special interest was the material showing alleged Jewish domination of the American Press and "Finance," particularly control of The New York Times.
War with postage stamps
For the opening Anti-Freemason Exhibition was issued by a series of four post stamps, featuring that are symbolically indicating where does evil come, for the Serbs. The post office, in Germany occupied Serbia like any other form of public life was under the absolute control of the Germans, their agencies and military units. They are so far the only Anti-Freemason post stamps ever printed in history.[citation needed] Today are very rare and very expensive.[citation needed]
References
- Template:Sr icon Milan Koljanin Anti-Semitic stereotypes and propaganda in Serbia from 1941 to 1945, Istorija 20. veka, 2003, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 83-118
- Visualizing Otherness II. Belgrade's Anti-Masonic exhibition of 1941-42, Centre for Holocaust and Genocide studies, University of Minnesota
- Henry Schwab (1992). The echoes that remain. Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum. p. 4.
External links
- Hate stamps Article on the hate stamps published in commemoration of the Anti-Freemason exhibition