The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust
In an era when both anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories continue to influence world politics, Herf offers a timely reminder of their dangers, along with a fresh interpretation of the paranoia underlying the ideology of the Third Reich.
About the Author: Jeffrey Herf is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. Among his books is Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
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The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust
In an era when both anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories continue to influence world politics, Herf offers a timely reminder of their dangers, along with a fresh interpretation of the paranoia underlying the ideology of the Third Reich.
About the Author: Jeffrey Herf is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. Among his books is Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
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The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust
In an era when both anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories continue to influence world politics, Herf offers a timely reminder of their dangers, along with a fresh interpretation of the paranoia underlying the ideology of the Third Reich.
About the Author: Jeffrey Herf is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. Among his books is Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
Jeffrey Herf is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. Among his books is Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich.
Table of Contents
Preface vii The Jews, the War, and the Holocaust 1 Building the Anti-Semitic Consensus 17 "International Jewry" and the Origins of World War II 50 At War against the Alliance of Bolshevism and Plutocracy 92 Propaganda in the Shadow of the Death Camps 138 "The Jews Are Guilty of Everything" 183 "Victory or Extermination" 231 Conclusion 264 The Anti-Semitic Campaigns of the Nazi Regime, as Reflected in Lead Front-Page Stories in Der Volkische Beobachter 281 List of Abbreviations 289 Notes 291 Acknowledgments 355 Bibliography 359 Bibliographical Essay 365 Index 375
In this impressive book, Jeffrey Herf shows that the omnipresent image of the 'international Jew' as the source of Germany's victimhood was central to the propaganda and political imagination of the Nazi leadership, which made no secret of its intention to destroy European Jewry.
Jay W. Baird
A commendable and compelling elucidation of the Nazi propaganda which accompanied the Holocaust, indispensable for both students of the Third Reich and general readers.
Jay W. Baird, author of The Mythical World of Nazi Propaganda, 1939-1945
Gerhard L. Weinberg
Here, practically for the first time, we can see how Germans before and during World War II were at all times in their daily lives confronted with a carefully designed view of the world in which a mythical Jewish enemy was portrayed as threatening Germans and hence had to be killed. No prior study has shown as clearly as this one how central this theme was to German wartime propaganda in all its forms. Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina
Susannah Heschel
Jeffrey Herf has written a brilliant book that reorients our understanding of the Holocaust. Arguing that racial antisemitism, however vicious, was an insufficient basis for genocide, Herf demonstrates that a major shift occurred in Nazi propaganda during the war: Jews were now presented as a political threat to the German nation, and as the instigators, through their puppets, America, England, and the Soviet Union, of a deadly world war against Germany. --(Susannah Heschel, author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus)
Anson Rabinbach
In this impressive book, Jeffrey Herf shows that the omnipresent image of the 'international Jew' as the source of Germany's victimhood was central to the propaganda and political imagination of the Nazi leadership, which made no secret of its intention to destroy European Jewry. --(Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University)