Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,3 (2004) 421-459
Keywords:
Jews
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Periodicals
Abstract:
Examines antisemitic publications and motifs in Crimean pro-Nazi periodicals published in the peninsula during the German occupation, focusing on the Simferopol-based Russian newspaper "Golos Kryma". A total of ca. 200 antisemitic items appeared in this paper between 1941-44. The main motifs and canards were those of political antisemitism, with those of religious, racial, or socioeconomic antisemitism reinforcing the former. The antisemitic materials were supplied mainly by the German propaganda services, with little freedom of initiative for local editors, and targeted the Russian population. Remarkably, these publications did not reflect current events (e.g. the mass murder of Jews), and continued in the same vein long after the Jews of Crimea were annihilated. Contends that, for Nazi propagandists and their local helpers, the Jews served merely as an embodiment of the universal enemy and its worldview, with which Germany was at war; anti-Jewish images also served to discredit the Soviet regime in the eyes of Russian readers.
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