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Freedom of speech also means the freedom to spread the poison of hate.
Nikolaus Wostry, from the Filmarchiv Austria, introducing @stgpresents #silentMovieMovies The City Without Jews (1924)
It was incredible.

Hugo Bettauer wrote the novel which was the basis of the movie. He was murdered in 1925 by a Nazi. Bettauer’s son emigrated to the US in 1938. His daughter lives in Seattle.

Photo: Anti-Semitism in Austria was growing in the 1920s
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How history repeats: Bettauer’s “private address was published and in the newspapers, it was explicitly said that such a person shouldn't be part of society." (Wostry)

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