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A French postcard produced in 1898 depicting anti-Jewish French journalist Edouard Drumont as a crusader eating a gross caricature of a Jew's head.

This “Boycott the Jew” sign could be found on a store window in Portland, Oregon in 1938, shortly before Kristallnacht. Referred to in English as “Night of the Broken Glass,” Kristallnacht took place on November 9 and 10, 1938 when the Nazis called for a series of pogroms (waves of organized violence) against the Jewish people throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. The name, “Kristallnacht,” refers to the shattered glass lining the streets in the wake of the massacres, which targeted synagogues, Jewish homes, and Jewish-owned businesses, killing scores of German and Austrian Jews.

This French postcard, produced in 1898, features a grotesque representation of the Dreyfus Affair, with anti-Jewish French journalist Edouard Drumont roasting a nude, caricatured Alfred Dreyfus on a spit.

Kamptegnet (“Battle Journal”) was a Danish weekly tabloid, essentially a carbon copy of Der Stürmer from design and format down to the tagline. Many editions feature the Danish version of Der Stürmer’s tagline, which translates to “The Jews are our misfortune.” The issue pictured here is tagged, “Vote anti-Jewish,” and the publication rotated through several similarly hateful slogans. Like Der Stürmer, Kamptegnet had nothing to do with actual news — its only content was hate.

On October 1, 1938, the Sudetenland (part of former Czechoslovakia inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans) celebrated the German takeover of the Czech border district of Asch, hometown of Sudeten party leader Konrad Erns Eduard Henlein.

This postal label, or "Cinderella," similar to the ones produced in Germany, is from Hungary. It reads, “Not a penny for these people,” referring, of course, to the Jews portrayed in caricature on its face.

A weekly German tabloid published by Julius Streicher, a Nazi and member of the Reichstag. The paper was a significant element of German anti-Jewish propaganda and, like tabloids today, it really had nothing to do with news.

This intricately designed and carved children’s toy was produced in Czechoslovakia c. the 1930s. Czechs were known for their puppetry, and this example came from the country’s premier puppet manufacturer, highlighting the commercialization of anti-Jewish ideology.

An article exploring how, though it was most rampant in Germany, Anti-Jewish sentiment spread to France, Romania, Belgium, the United States, and more during the 1930s.

Even in Denmark, where one might suspect Jewish people would be safe, anti-Jewish sentiment led to propaganda items like these national socialist party labels.