The Iron Broom A Journal of Self-Defence Appears on the 5th and 20th of every month No. 4 September 5th 1919 12 Hellers To those returning home! You have been away from home for a long time. Many of you have been gone for years. Only in prison did you really learn properly what home means. In the heavy dreams that filled your nights, in the torment of your defencelessness, in the bitterness of your privations, in your leaden brooding and in your sudden outbursts of despairing anger – in all your feelings was your love of home, your yearning for the Heimat. At last, at long last, came the day of your salvation. The minutes ticked away like endless, foggy days, but each one was bringing you closer to home; and now you are, indeed, back home once more. You knew, of course, that you would not find your homeland the way it used to be. The old homeland is dead. You will have heard how hard, how terribly hard was her death. She can no longer welcome you back. She can no longer thank you for your willingness to sacrifice your property and your blood for her sake — to fight for a free future for your homeland. You will be greeted by a new homeland, a child of the old one. She is small and poor, with but a slight resemblance to her mother. And from the mother she has also inherited the name: Austria. Though humble and impoverished, Austria is still there! Your hearts raced as you saw the first trees, the first cottages of your homeland. Some among you were silent and fearful, while others were jubilant: but, in both responses, love was present. Now she receives you, your poor, little, haggard, and yet so dearly beloved homeland. And in your eyes, the question glows: Whose fault is it that our homeland is no longer proud and strong, but small and poor? Whose fault? Who bears the guilt for the terrible misfortune that has befallen everything we hold dear? Who? Soldiers! To your silent questions, those who welcome you in the name of the new homeland will give no answer –or else they will lie to your faces and say: For hungering after power, the old homeland has been punished with death! Imperialism and militarism have dug her grave. Soldiers, note this and note it well: When they tell you such things, they are lying! And they are lying because they cannot and will not tell you the truth! You set out, not to conquer foreign lands and subjugate foreign peoples, but to defend your dear old homeland against sheer greed and a lust for destruction! And while you were defending your homeland with your bodies against an overwhelming adversary, others betrayed and sold that homeland behind your back. Soldiers! For the sake of your homeland, you have borne the hardest pains and done the boldest deeds. And all the while, others were busy making business deals in safely bullet-free regions far from the front line. They squeezed billions and billions from your homeland, they led a luxurious life, they twisted the news as they saw fit, and they spent prodigious amounts in gambling dens. Where did they get the money for all this? Soldiers! When you were prisoners, did you hear anything about usury, about smuggling, about hoarding and profiteering? And did anyone tell you who committed these shameless crimes, thereby plunging your homeland into a peace that destroyed it? We don’t need to tell you who did these things. Open your own eyes and look around you! Look at the places where fun is to be had: the fine restaurants, the high-class cafés, the theatres and cabarets, the casinos – you’ll find them full of fat Jews and fat Jewesses. In not one Jewish face will you see any sign of deprivation or suffering. You will not find a single Jew-child in the ****illegible*** who doesn’t have an expression of insolent contentment on his face. Plump-hipped and chubby-cheeked, each and every one of them! And then look at the others, who aren’t Jews. Emaciated figures in torn and tattered rags, creeping past you: children whose eyes are begging you for bread; young mothers with bent backs and sunken breasts; men with sunken eyes and a feeble, unsteady gait. Among these poor and wretched people you will search in vain for a Jew! Soldiers: if you have once seen such a sight, then you know – everything. They will welcome you in the name of the “Free Republic”: And when they have the cheek to speak to you of the new homeland and of how lucky we are to have lost the old one… then, soldiers, ask them, with a firm but quiet voice: Why, until the present day, has Jewish usury, Jewish fraud, Jewish black-marketeering, Jewish hoarding, smuggling and profiteering not been rooted out? Why must our fellow-homelanders go hungry, while Jewish interlopers from the East live the high life? Why is wholesale trade, including the sale of groceries and items of daily use, entirely in the hands of the Jews? Why are almost only Jews to be found in every head office or H.Q.? Why can thousands of returning soldiers not find even modest accommodation, while thousands of Hungarian and Polish Jews have rented entire floors? Why must German railway workers, driven out of their homes, live in miserable wooden barracks while Galician and Hungarian Jews own the comfortable houses? Why must our women, our children and our aged parents suffer bitter privations; why is there often not a drop of milk for our babies; why, often enough, can not even a single egg be found for our most seriously ill citizens; while in the Jewish houses and the places of pleasure frequented by Jews, the tables groan under prodigious quantities of the finest delicacies ? Why must our women often search for scraps of paper with which to light their ovens, while the cellars of Jewish “refugees” are filled to the brim with coal? Why is everything that’s missing in open trade available from Jewish black-marketeers, in any quantity desired, for usurious prices? Why can a poor returning soldier not satisfy his surely-modest desire for a few cigarettes, while every café****illegible*** has thousands of cigarettes supplied to it by its Jewish****illegible***? Why are the leaders of the “free republic” mere passive observers of the Jews’ shameless crimes? Why does the government not protect the people, now grown poor and wretched, from vicious exploitation by the Jews? Why indeed are these disgraceful dregs of humanity, these Jewish parasites, still tolerated in our homeland? How did Jewry buy such forbearance from those who govern us? Soldiers! Should you ask such questions of those who greet you in the name of the new homeland, they will certainly be more than a little astonished. They have come to win your approval for the “Free Republic”; they want to deceive you into believing that all the sad things you will see have come down to you from the old republic. But if you ask them why, after ten months of freedom and justice, that heirloom called “Jewry” is fatter and more insolent than ever before; if you ask why the Jews weren’t chased over the border long ago; if you point with one hand at the bellies of the fatted Jews and the provocative luxury of the fat Jewesses, while pointing with the other hand at the miserable faces and starving bodies of your Volkish comrades — then, o soldiers: then you will see these “liberators” and “benefactors” of the people scurrying away with their tails between their legs. And your question will be the first step towards salvation for our beloved homeland and our beloved Volk! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Judified American Cities For years now, people have been pointing out that Woodrow Wilson is the lackey of the Jews and a mere “manager” employed by the Jewish plutocracy. Unfortunately, the volkish newspapers have consistently failed to focus steadily on this important point. We, by contrast, point out once again today that Wilson’s secretary is an unbaptised Jew named Tumulten [sic] [Translator’s Note: His name was in fact ‘Tumulty’, and he was not actually Jewish.]; that Wilson made use of Luitgarden, an immigrant Jewish advocate from Galicia, whenever he wished to influence public opinion; that Wilson’s closest and best friends are called Morgentau, Elkas, Baruch, Davidsohn, Loebkahn, Kuhn and Schiff. But the true extent of Jewish influence over the American people can be judged from the following fact: as the Jewish Press Centre (Zurich) just reported, the well-known workers’ leader Samuel Gompers has appointed Rabbi Stephan Wise (New York) to achieve agreement within the steel industry. Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, was born in London to Jewish parents. ____________________ >>>>> Germans: hold meetings and mass rallies to demand the expulsion from Austria of the Galician and Hungarian Jews! <<<<< The "Disgrace of the Century": these words were allegedly spoken by the Emperor Frederick the Great, and they are often quoted in an effort to make any opposition to Jews look contemptible. We owe them to Magnus, a Jewish city representative in Berlin, who claims to have heard these words from the then-Crown-Prince Frederick. Allegedly, only the two of them were present at the time. It's a popular tactic amongst our Hebrew fellow-citizens: putting into other people's mouths words they never uttered. In this the Jews are assisted, on the one hand, by the ingenuous kindliness of the German people, whose good-humoured tolerance may all-too-easily be interpreted as support; and sadly also by a lack of courage, by a failure to stand up stoutly against this "chosen" but cowardly race. This is the true "Disgrace of the Century": that Germans are so foolishly naive as to let the Hebrews lead them around by the nose.
