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Booklet published by the Canadian Jewish Congress and given away for free in 1944 - via savedfromthepaperdrive
With a tip of the Xenophone hat to gentlemanlosergentlemanjunkie, this TRUFAX post goes out to schnappbacks, original proprietor of The Alt-Historian. Happy New Year, pal!
Here we see King Avram the Wise, third to bear that name as ruler of the Triune Kingdom of Scythia, Pannonia & Trans-Balkania, inspecting a battery of 28cm Phlogistonic Vortex Projectors. Weapons such as these were key in ensuring the Triune Kingdom's neutrality during the Great Continental War, despite it being center-most of the Central Powers ("Who let this hedgehog into the cockpit of nations!?" - Erich von Falkenhayn 1914). Accompanying the King is 'Željezo', chief of the Special Directorate For The Scientific Arts. Between their penchant for mysterious single monikers - actually taken from ancient naming traditions of the Pannonian hill folk - and their undeniable scientific genius, Nikola Tesla was moved to say "I have already met men from Mars. They work for the Special Directorate..."
New York magazine's headline proclaiming the election of the first Jewish president, Ben Ngdiru.
Born in Wisconsin to a family of Kenyan Jews originally from Ethiopia, Ngdiru became not only the first Jewish president, but the first black Jewish president. L'chaim!
Sir Oswald Mosley's historic declaration, reprinted here in the Jewish Economic Forum. This single article nearly doubled the membership rolls of the British Union of Fascists, as most of Britain's Jews at the time were extremely sympathetic to the hard right-wing stance of the Revisionist Zionists.
In fact, after Mosley's 1942 takeover, the British Fascist Republic remained one of the only Axis powers to never take any severe anti-Jewish action. As well, one Mosley's closest advisers was a Jew by the name of Uri Zvi Greenberg, who had fled Palestine after the Arab takeover of 1938.
Widespread anti-Semitism in the British Army led to the creation of segregated "Jewish Brigades" during the First and Second World War. This poster is for the 15th (Jewish) Service Battalion, under the command of Colonel Robert Friedman (the "Capt. Freedman" on the poster is in fact a misprint).
While originally not expected to fight (General Haig's diaries refer to "the well-known Jewish Cowardice") the Jewish Brigades were thrown into the fighting during the Italian stalemate and distinguished themselves during the push to the Caucasus.
After the Second World War, the Jewish Brigades were integrated with the regular army.
