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 The colour front of this postcard features 5 men dressed as mountaineers climbing the stereotypic hooked-nose of a Jewish man. The heading in the top left translates as “climb on the hawk”, hawk-nose was a common anti-jewish slur comparing their noses to the curved beaks of birds.

The postcard is by noted Austrian artist Leo Stainer (1870-1964), who owned a studio in Innsbruck. During WWI he was a decorated fire-brigade volunteer and in WWII his non-essential studio was temporarily close so he became an Air Raid Protection member in his 70s. In 1944 his son-in-law Lieutenant Siegfried Hartung was killed in Poland.

More information is available here:  https://museum.roteskreuz-innsbruck.at/index.php?title=Leo_Stainer

On the reverse, the word “postcard” has been translated into French, German, English,  Hungarian, Croatian and Russian. Someone has written a paragraph, but we have found this beyond illegible to translate.