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

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Nazi Symbolic Violence 8 comrade while his non-‐Jewish attackers flee. The caption claims Germans are fighting senselessly against Germans, with Jews provoking violence from behind the scenes. “Blood against blood! Too cowardly to fight, the Yid incites others to murder.” (1932) Given Nazi racial theory, a particular concern was sexual relations between Jews and Germans. Mixing races was always deleterious, since “bad blood” corrupted “good blood.” Since Jews according to the Nazis were ugly, they depended on reprehensible methods of sexual conquest. Non-‐violent means such as money were common, but also violence. Streicher specialized in stories and images alleging Jewish sexual violence. In a typical example, a girl cowers under the huge claw-‐like hand of a Jew, his evil silhouette in the background. The caption at the bottom of the page: “German girls! Keep away from Jews!”
Nazi Symbolic Violence 9 “There followed a hard fight. The girl screamed for help.” (1926) These images were particularly striking and consistent with the larger theme. Although Jews were too cowardly to engage in manly combat and too disgusting to be physically attractive to German women, they were eager to overpower and rape German women, thereby corrupting the Aryan racial stock and speeding the day when Jews would dominate a world no longer possessing the racial purity to enable it to resist. These and other images suggested a fundamentally strong Germany being destroyed by Jews. A 1926 Stürmer cartoon made the point clearly. A powerful German locomotive is switched to the track of death. Germany and the Germans
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