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Nazi Symbolic Violence 36 Der Schulungsbrief (early 1942) A huge Jewish arm stabs Germany in the back during World War I. The image was unusual in that it showed a Jew as larger than Germany — however, since it referred to the previous war, it perhaps suggested the alleged power of Jews in the past rather than the present. With the broadening of the war, Nazi verbal rhetoric increasingly called for the destruction, annihilation, or extermination of the Jews. Hitler regularly recited his 1939 “prophesy” about the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe. Joseph Goebbels called for the annihilation of the Jews. Nazi speakers received guidelines on how to speak about the destruction of the Jews. After Stalingrad, two major anti-‐ Semitic campaigns in 1943 spread vehement anti-‐Semitic words across newspapers and magazines. 13 13 For more extensive discussions of Nazi verbal anti-‐Semitic propaganda during World War II, see my “The Argument for Genocide in Nazi Propaganda,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 91 (2005), 37-‐62, and Jeffrey Herf, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi
Nazi Symbolic Violence 37 There were a fair number of images showing Jewish violence along the familiar lines. There were images depicting Jews as the power behind Germany’s enemies, a power that if it succeeded in destroying Germany would then destroy its temporary allies. A 1943 cartoon in Lustige Blätter, for example, had a Jewish monster with its tentacles strangling China, Russia, England, and the United States. 1943 A Stürmer image the same year had the world’s people in chains while a Jew leered at the enslaved planet. These images, however, remained less vivid than verbal anti-‐ Semitism, which incessantly claimed that the Jews intended the complete extirpation of Germany. Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
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