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| Type | Weekly magazine |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Editor-in-chief | Tauno E. Einiö 1931–1933 Tahvo Liljeblad 1933 |
| Founded | 1931 (1931) |
| Ceased publication | 1939 (1939) |
| Political alignment | Nazism |
| Language | Finnish language |
| Country | Finland |
Siniristi (Finnish:Blue Cross, until 1933Tapparamies, (Finnish:the Axman)) was a FinnishNazi magazine published between 1931 and 1939 and published by Publishing Company Oy Vasara that was operated byGunnar von Hertzen andY. W. Jalander. Its material consisted mainly of anti-Semitic propaganda adopted fromNazi Germany. The authors of the magazine included the well-known Finnish-Swedish NaziThorvald Oljemark.[1]
Siniristi was a deeply antisemitic magazine, and its antisemitism was mainly based onChristian 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 theTalmud which supposedly contained attacks on Christianity, because the Jews understood Christianity stood against their world-conquest plans.[1][3]
AsTapparamies the magazine lasted a few years, but it reinvented itself asSiniristi 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 other sub-headings to declare its political outlook, such as ‘Battle Magazine against Jewish Imperialism’. WhileTapparamies had been an outgrowth ofPatriotic 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 1939Siniristi was replaced byKustaa Vaasa magazine.[1]
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