Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Telos; a Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought
Angaben zur Quelle:
135 (2006) 32-60
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Antisemitism History 1933-1945
;
Anti-Jewish propaganda History 20th century
;
Jews History 1933-1945
;
Conspiracy theories
Abstract:
The Nazi narrative of an international Jewish conspiracy which aimed to destroy Germany and exterminate the Germans as a people helped the regime to project the image of itself as an innocent victim and the war as a defense against this conspiracy. Moreover, it legitimated the Nazi murder campaign against the Jews in Europe; the "war against the Jews" was an inseparable part of Germany's conventional war against the anti-Hitler coalition. Argues that Nazi wartime propaganda language, with all its euphemisms, was rather clear regarding the fate of the Jews: the Nazis spoke openly of "annihilation" and "extermination" of the "Jewish race". Shows how Nazi propaganda exploited the publication of the book "Germany Must Perish!" by the obscure author Theodore Kaufman in the USA in 1941. Dwells, also, on the Nazi ideological campaign against Zionism, viewed as a plan to establish world headquarters for the "Jewish conspiracy". This campaign helped the Nazis attract Arab nationalists, in particular Amin el-Husseini, to their cause. The aftereffects of the Nazi propaganda campaign are still perceptible long after the war's end.
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