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Nazi Symbolic Violence 16 and justified means to eliminate harmful Jewish influence in Germany. 5 Jews, according to propaganda, used underhanded means to establish their control whereas Nazis followed the peaceful method of laws and regulations to keep Jews from exploiting Germans. While making life ever more difficult for the Jews, the Nazis actually downplayed anti-‐Semitic propaganda (although Streicher’s Der Stürmer maintained an almost entirely anti-‐Semitic focus). Since Nazis now had the power to carry our their policies, a goal was to minimize sympathy for Jews within Germany as well as unpleasant international publicity. The basic propaganda line was that Jews were exploiting Germany’s remarkable patience. A 1936 Stürmer cartoon has a Jew sitting down on a park bench next to a polite German, only to shove him aside. Life for German Jews in “May I sit next to you…” (1936) Jew in 1936 was already difficult, but the caricature suggests prosperous Jews continuing to exploit gullible Germans. 5 An excellent account of the period is Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 (New York, HarperCollins, 1997).
Nazi Symbolic Violence 17 Jews were still a deadly threat, however. Since they could no longer depend on their former political and economic power within Germany, they turned to individual acts of violence. Julius Streicher was the most prolific source of such images during the period, but they sometimes appeared in other popular periodicals as well. Streicher printed a large number of vivid caricatures and stories of alleged Jewish sexual violence, and a significant number of stories on Jewish ritual murder. There were several special editions on the latter theme which had enormous print runs. Since they resemble the images already discussed, there is no need to provide more here. 6 There was also some emphasis on the alleged cruelty of Jewish kosher slaughter. A 1938 Stürmer edition carried grisly photographs of Jewish cruelty. “How the Jew slaughters: Devilish cruelty to animals” (1938) 6 For examples, see http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/sturmer.htm.
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