Siniristi (Finnish: Blue Cross, until 1933 Tapparamies, (Finnish: the Axman)) was a Finnish Nazi magazine published between 1931 and 1939 and published by Publishing Company Oy Vasara that was operated by Gunnar von Hertzen and Y. W. Jalander. Its material consisted mainly of anti-Semitic propaganda adopted from Nazi Germany. The authors of the magazine included the well-known Finnish-Swedish Nazi Thorvald Oljemark.[1]
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| Type | Weekly magazine |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Editor-in-chief | Tauno E. Einiö 1931–1933 Tahvo Liljeblad 1933 |
| Founded | 1931 |
| Political alignment | Nazism |
| Language | Finnish language |
| Ceased publication | 1939 |
| Country | Finland |
Siniristi was a deeply antisemitic magazine, and its antisemitism was mainly based on Christian antisemitism, which was the dominant current in Finnish society.[2] Tahvo Liljeblad published many articles on the relations of Christians and Jews: to him Jesus was the most powerful opponent of the Jews and was killed for challenging the teachings of the rabbis "which are fatal to humanity". As punishment the Jews were cursed and scattered by God.[1] In 1933 Siniristi published an exposé on the Talmud which supposedly contained attacks on Christianity, because the Jews understood Christianity stood against their world-conquest plans.[1][3]
As Tapparamies the magazine lasted a few years, but it reinvented itself as Siniristi in 1933. To stress the continuity it sported the same subtitle: ‘Battle Magazine for the Fatherland, the Fortune of the People and the Faith of the Fathers’. Siniristi also used a other sub-headings to declare its political outlook, such as ‘Battle Magazine against Jewish Imperialism’. While Tapparamies had been an outgrowth of Patriotic Citizens of Viitasaari, when the magazine transferred under the editorship of Björn Smeds who was employed by German intelligence, it became purely a mouthpiece of the German Nazi Party.[4]
In 1939 Siniristi was replaced by Kustaa Vaasa magazine.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Hanski, Jari: Juutalaisvastaisuus suomalaisissa aikakauslehdissä ja kirjallisuudessa 1918—1944, s. 39, 172. Kirja kerrallaan, Helsinki 2006. ISBN 952-920-042-0.
- ^ ”Toimikaa, älkää odottako” : Vihtori Kosolan puheiden muutokset 1929–1936. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2015. ISBN 9789513963958
- ^ Eero Lappi, Irti juutalaisesta ikeestä. Juutalaisvastaisuus Siniristi-lehden kirjoittelussa 1931–1939. Jyväskylän yliopisto. Suomen historian pro gradu -työ
- ^ Silvennoinen, O. (2024). For freedom and justice? The Vasara circle as a conduit of conspiracist antisemitism in inter-war Finland. Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 35(1), 52–70. https://doi.org/10.30752/nj.142241
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