Library:The Jewish Enemy
| The Jewish Enemy | |
|---|---|
| Author | Jeffrey Herf |
| First published | 2006 |
| ISBN | 978-0-674-02175-4 unverified |
| Role | Analysis |
| Domains | History Culture, Religion & Society |
| Tactics | Propaganda Technique Conspiracy Theory |
The Jewish Enemy is a 2006 book by Jeffrey Herf.
Summary
Jeffrey Herf, a historian at the University of Maryland, studied the antisemitic propaganda that Nazi Germany directed at its own population during the Second World War.
A conspiracy narrative
Herf shows that Nazi propaganda presented the war as one started and directed by "international Jewry," which was portrayed as controlling Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously. This conspiracy theory framed the murder of Europe's Jews as an act of self-defense.
Sources
The book draws on press directives, speeches, radio broadcasts and the weekly wall newspapers posted throughout Germany. Herf argues that this propaganda was public and pervasive, which challenges claims that ordinary Germans could not have known the regime's genocidal intent.
Relevance to Bullshitopedia
A detailed study of how a conspiracy theory was turned into state policy and used to justify genocide.
Related entries
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- Jews murder Christian children for their blood
- Library:Denying the Holocaust