THE INFLUENCE OF ANTI-SEMITIC IMAGERY AND RHETORIC IN GERMANY DURING THE EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY
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Authors
Smith, Michelle G.
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Nazi
propaganda
anti-Semitism
imagery
rhetoric
propaganda
anti-Semitism
imagery
rhetoric
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Abenheim, Donald
Halladay, Carolyn C.
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2021-03
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Propaganda imagery and rhetoric has played a role in mass persuasion leading to an escalation of political violence connected to ethnic hatred as found in Germany in the 20th century—and beyond. By examining the anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery used in Nazi Germany, this study examines the propaganda of racial hatred as a mechanism for gaining domestic political power—and then for launching a systematic strategy of mass-murder of Europe’s Jews. While the Nazis employed the most modern means available to disseminate their anti-Semitic propaganda, the message resonated with the long-standing and deep-seated hatred of Jews in Germany and Europe. Both the ideas and the methods continue to influence right-wing extremism today in Germany and elsewhere; as such, this study revisits the origins and effects of anti-Jewish propaganda in the Third Reich with an eye toward the continuing relevance of this analysis.
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National Security Affairs (NSA)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.