Theodor Seibert Explained

Theodor Seibert (born 1896) was a German National Socialist journalist and writer. Seibert travelled throughout the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1929 as press representative of the Hamburger Fremdenblatt, the Münchner and the Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten. His book Red Russia criticised Soviet Russia. In the late 1930s Seibert was London correspondent of the Völkischer Beobachter and local head of the German Press Association in London.^[1] He was active as an anti-Semitic propagandist,^[2] characterising Bolshevism and 'Rooseveltism' as two aspects of 'international Jewry'.^[3]

Works

• Das rote Russland : Staat, Geist und Alltag der Bolschewiki, 1931. Translated by Cedar and Eden Paul as Red Russia, 1932
• Wie sieht uns der Engländer, 1940
• Das amerikanische Rätsel, die Kriegspolitik der USA in der Aera Roosevelt, 1941

Notes and References

1. James J. Barnes & Patience P. Barnes, Nazis in Pre-War London, 1930-1939: The Fate and Role of German Party Members and British Sympathizers, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.199ff.
2. Jeffrey Herf, The Jewish enemy: Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, p.224ff.
3. 'Die jüdische Feind', Völkischer Beobachter, 12 November 1941. See Robert A. Pois, National Socialism and the religion of nature, Taylor & Francis, 1986, p.128