Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition

The Anti -Masonic Exhibition (Serbian: Antimasonska izložba ) was a propaganda exhibition, which was opened in Belgrade on 22 October 1941. The exhibition was part of the propaganda campaign of the Serbian Nazi - collaborationist government, and was funded by the City Council of Belgrade. Approximately 80,000 people visited the exhibition.

After the occupation of Serbia by troops of the Axis powers, the collaboration regime was installed under the leadership of General Milan Nedic in Serbia.

Nedic and his followers continued to the plans of the Nazis to remove the Jews, Roma, and Tito 's Partisans from Serbia by force.

The central theme was the alleged Jewish- Communist- Masonic conspiracy. They resembled the propaganda of the Tsarist secret police in the period before the Russian Revolution.

During the exhibition over 200,000 different brochures, 60,000 posters, 100,000 flyers, 176 propaganda film clips and four special stamps were issued.

The organizers advertised the fact that the concept of this exhibition " not only in Serbia and the Balkans, not only in South-Eastern Europe and Europe, but all over the world is unique."

The pictures on the posters were partly the same, who had some years previously issued in Germany during " The Eternal Jew " exhibitions in the years 1937-1939.

Serbian newspapers like Obnova (renewal) and Naša Borba (Our Struggle) praised the exhibition and declared that Jews were enemies of the Serbs and demanding that Serbia does not wait for Germany at the " Final Solution of the Jewish Question", but even starting with the extermination of the Jews.

In May 1942, the Serbian government issued four commemorative stamps that had the exhibition on the subject. These stamps were only Jewish and Serbian, but no Nazi symbols and portrayed Judaism as the source of evil in the world, which was to meet with violence.