Deutsches Historisches Museum Deutsches Historisches Museum

Deutsches Historisches Museum

2 Unter den Linden, Berlin, 10117, Germany | +4930203040 | Website

Exhibition: Sticky Messages. Antisemitic and racist stickers

Exhibition from 20 April to 31 July 2016
They are familiar to everyone and can be found sticking everywhere: on street signs, letter boxes, in underground stations, in children's rooms, in love letters. Stickers and adhesive labels, also known as sticky notes, have been around on a massive scale since the late 19th century: a small format that is zealously disseminated in public places, privately collected and often traded. Stickers have been used since the beginning as an inexpensive way of popularising worldviews. Collector cards and albums helped to spread and reinforce racist ideas of inequality and superiority and to bring them into people's private lives. Stickers with anti-Jewish pictures and slogans have always been extremely popular with antisemites. But Jewish organisations soon learned to fight back against these slanderous attacks and publicly combated the antisemitic propaganda. Even today stickers are used for political agitation.

This exhibition is designed for disabled people and offers tours for the blind and visually impaired as well as tours in sign language, by arrangement.

 

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