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Behind the Aegis

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Wed Nov 14, 2018, 04:36 PM Nov 2018

(Jewish Group) The Charming Belgian Jew With a Huge anti-Semitic Propaganda Collection

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

In a quiet house in the upscale neighborhood of Uccle, a huge and horrifying mass of anti-Semitic hate material sits arranged in cardboard boxes on long shelves.

This private collection, one of the largest in the world, belongs to Arthur Langerman. It features thousands of posters, paintings, cartoons, postcards and other visual materials on a single subject: a profound hatred of the Jews.

Langerman himself, a tall and pleasant man who looks younger than his 76 years, lives in a large home nearby. He is in the diamond trade and is considered one of the world’s experts on colored gems.

He has also tried his hand at translation and has produced French versions (from the original Yiddish) of some of Shalom Aleichem’s finest works. His anti-Semitism collection, however, remains the subject that preoccupies him.

He felt enormous satisfaction last year when the Caen Memorial Museum, which commemorates the Allied landing on D-Day, held an exhibition of anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda drawn from his own collection; it was visited by 150,000 people. In conjunction with the exhibition, the French publisher Fayard produced a catalog showcasing Langerman’s collection and anti-Semitic images from 1886 onward that helped lead to the Holocaust.

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