The sheer magnitude of the Holocaust has commanded our attention
for the past sixty years. The extent of atrocities, however, has
overshadowed the calculus Nazis used to justify their deeds.
According to German wartime media, it was German citizens who
were targeted for extinction by a vast international conspiracy.
Leading the assault was an insidious, belligerent Jewish clique, so
crafty and powerful that it managed to manipulate the actions of
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Hitler portrayed the Holocaust as
a defensive act, a necessary move to destroy the Jews before they
destroyed Germany.
Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, and Otto Dietrich's
Press Office translated this fanatical vision into a coherent
cautionary narrative, which the Nazi propaganda machine
disseminated into the recesses of everyday life. Calling on
impressive archival research, Jeffrey Herf recreates the wall
posters that Germans saw while waiting for the streetcar, the radio
speeches they heard at home or on the street, the headlines that
blared from newsstands. "The Jewish Enemy" is the first extensive
study of how anti-Semitism pervaded and shaped Nazi propaganda
during World War II and the Holocaust, and how it pulled together
the diverse elements of a delusionary Nazi worldview. Here we find
an original and haunting exposition of the ways in which Hitler
legitimized war and genocide to his own people, as necessary to
destroy an allegedly omnipotent Jewish foe. 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 ThirdReich.
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