Siniristi (Finnish: ''Blue Cross'', until 1933 ''Tapparamies'', (Finnish: ''the Axman'')) was a Finnish

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

magazine published between 1931 and 1939 and published by Publishing Company Oy Vasara that was operated by Gunnar von Hertzen and Y. W. Jalander. Its material consisted mainly of anti-Semitic propaganda adopted from

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. The authors of the magazine included the well-known Finnish-Swedish Nazi

Thorvald Oljemark Hjalmar Thorvald Oljemark (24 March 1900 - 25 April 1938) was a Finnish manor owner and a Nazi. He was one of the founders of the Nazi party called the Finnish People's Organisation and also worked as its propaganda chief and editor-in-chief of t ...

.Hanski, Jari: Juutalaisvastaisuus suomalaisissa aikakauslehdissä ja kirjallisuudessa 1918—1944, s. 39, 172. Kirja kerrallaan, Helsinki 2006. ISBN 952-920-042-0. ''Siniristi'' was a deeply antisemitic magazine, and its antisemitism was mainly based on

Christian antisemitism Antisemitism in Christianity, a form of religious antisemitism, is the feeling of hostility which some Christian Churches, Christian groups, and ordinary Christians have towards the Jewish religion and the Jewish people. Antisemitic Christian ...

, which was the dominant current in Finnish society. 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. In 1933 Siniristi published an exposé on the

Talmud The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cente ...

which supposedly contained attacks on Christianity, because the Jews understood Christianity stood against their world-conquest plans.Siniristi 1/1933, 6–8: ”Juutalaisten pyhän kirjan Talmudin oppi Kristuksesta, kristinuskosta ja kristityistä In 1939 ''Siniristi'' was replaced by '' Kustaa Vaasa'' magazine.

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