Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Quarterly Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
103,4 (2013) 503-522
Keywords:
Welt-Dienst
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Antisemitism in the press
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National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The ostensibly private news agency Welt-Dienst, aimed at disseminating antisemitic propaganda worldwide, was established in 1933. Its main periodical, "Welt-Dienst: Internationale Korrespondenz zur Aufklärung über die Judenfrage", published in 1933-45 articles by many prominent radical antisemites; a list of its subscribers included public libraries, the Hitler Youth, and the Wehrmacht. The Welt-Dienst closely collaborated with Nazi "academic" institutions like the Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage, as well as with the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, which provided the agency with books and other materials plundered in occupied countries. As an agency pretending to form people's Weltanschauung, the Welt-Dienst legitimized anti-Jewish actions, providing them with a range of rationalizations. Focuses on the wartime activities of the Welt-Dienst, when it was utilized also for indoctrinating foreign workers and POWs. Notes that publications of the Welt-Dienst Verlag came out in 21 languages. In 1943 it began to publish a new "confidential" periodical, "Informationen zur Judenfrage", directed largely at the Foreign Ministry. In 1945 Welt-Dienst halted its activities; the former Nazi propagandist Johann von Leers, who fled to Egypt in the 1950s, considered reactivating it.
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