Völkischer Beobachter
Heine's writings were abhorred by the Nazis and one of their political mouthpieces, the "Völkischer Beobachter", made noteworthy efforts to attack him. Within the pantheon of the "Jewish cultural intelligentsia" chosen for anti-Semitic demonization, perhaps nobody was the recipient of more National Socialist vitriol than Heinrich Heine. When a memorial to Heine was completed in 1926, the paper lamented that Hamburg had erected a "Jewish Monument to Heine and Damascus...one in which "Alljuda" ruled!". Editors for the "Völkischer Beobachter" referred to Heine's writing as degenerate on multiple occasions as did Alfred Rosenberg. Correspondingly, as part of the effort to dismiss and hide Jewish contribution to German art and culture, all Heine monuments were removed or destroyed in the Third Reich and Heine's books were suppressed and, from 1940 on, banned.