Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
38,2 (2010) 123-153
Keywords:
British Broadcasting Company
;
BBC Radio
;
Czechs
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Mass media and the Holocaust
Abstract:
Examines wartime speeches dealing with the persecution of Jews aired by Czechoslovak politicians in exile through the Czechoslovak Service of the BBC. The intensity and contents of such broadcasts was determined by various considerations. Both the British and the exiles were concerned about Nazi and collaborationist propaganda efforts to link the governments-in-exile with international Jewish influence. The exiles were eager to preserve the image of interwar Czechoslovakia as a democratic country remarkable for fair treatment of its minorities, but at the same time they had to take into account popular anti-Jewish sentiments at home, shared even by members of the Czechoslovak anti-Nazi resistance. With all that, from 1943 on, the Czechoslovak Service of the BBC addressed the Nazi Holocaust intensely. The broadcasts stressed that antisemitism was alien to Czechs and Slovaks, and that the genocidal actions were perpetrated by the Germans only, and in the case of Slovakia by the traitorous collaborationist government of Tiso and Tuka. Broadcasts dealing with the anti-Jewish policies of "independent" Slovakia aimed to show that Slovakia's rulers were foreign to the Slovak national tradition and to Christianity. References to the persecution of Jews were always accompanied by the mention of similar Nazi plans for other peoples.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים" לח,2 (תשעא) 103-127
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