Judensau (Jews' sow) depicted in the south facade of the Regensburg Cathedral (Regensburger Dom) in Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany. The image of Jews in obscene contact with a female pig, which in Judaism is an unclean animal, appeared during the 13th and 14th centuries in Germany as antisemitic propaganda.


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