It's Them or Us: Killing the Jews in Nazi Propaganda1 - Bytwerk

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Nazi Symbolic Violence 14 “Battling the Weeds” (1932) could be interpreted in a symbolic rather than literal sense. More ominous (but rare) caricatures suggested what would become known as the Final Solution. Der Stürmer carried a cover cartoon in 1927 depicting Jewish rats being killed by poison gas. The cartoon claimed that German art, commerce, science, and industry would thrive only when the Jewish vermin infesting them were exterminated. Although no one in 1927 could foresee the Holocaust,
Nazi Symbolic Violence 15 When the vermin are dead, the German oak will flourish once more (1927) the visual presentation of Jews as rats and the use of poison gas at least suggested what the Nazis were capable of. In these and other images, a viewer could assume either the exaggeration of caricature or that the Nazis were in deadly earnest. This was advantageous, since the Nazis were appealing to a broad audience. To suggest too great a violent intent would alienate less radical Germans. Fervent anti-‐Semites, on the other hand, could take the images more literally. Preface to Genocide: 1933-1941 After Hitler took power in 1933, Nazi anti-‐Semitism took a turn. Jews inside Germany were still a threat, but one whose total defeat was nearing. The Nazis began immediately restricting the rights of Jews, presenting their actions as peaceful
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