Nazi Anti-Jewish Propaganda

by lisa, Feb 3, 2010, at 10:29 am

Below are three examples of the caricature of Jews promoted by Nazi Germany. I borrowed them from this collection, where you can find many more if you scroll to the bottom (thanks to Kat, monosonic, and Lisa for the translations!).

“The Eternal Jew”:

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“The Eternal Jew”:

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Jews- make wars longer, start wars:

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See our other posts on Nazi Germany: comparing German remembrance of the Holocaust and U.S. remembrance of slavery, Nazi symbolism, Nazi celebration of motherhood, the racialization of the Jews, Jim Crow-like segregation during the Nazi regime, and this sympathetic memorabilia website.

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Tags: fascism/totalitarianism, history, nation: Germany, prejudice/discrimination, race/ethnicity, religion

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Kat 10:50 am on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply

Jews- make wars longer
Jews- start wars

The other two are film posters Der ewige Jude
- monosonic 11:16 am on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply
  
  accurate translation.
- K 5:52 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply
  
  Sounds like Cindy Sheehan…
  - Kat 8:39 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply
    
    ?????!!! What?
Deaf Indian Muslim Anarchist 11:11 am on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply

Racism sucks!
Lisa 11:26 am on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply

“Der ewige Jude” means “The eternal Jew”

The other poster is:
“The Jew”
“War instigator”
“War prolonger”
ild 11:28 am on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply

your links are not working to your other posts?
- lisa 3:40 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply
  
  ild, They’re working for me in both Firefox and IE.
linsey 11:53 am on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply

I would love to know what the poster of the woman breastfeeding says. I can’t read the typeface, apparently, to type it into a translator. Anyone?
- Doro 12:08 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply
  
  Unterstützt das Hilfswerk Mutter und Kind.
  
  ->
  
  Support the relief organisation mother and child.
Kat 12:15 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply

Random question: Is this THE antisemitic depiction of Jews, or do visual antisemitic depictions differ? I’m just reading something on why “Anglo-Saxon stock women” should not share rooms with Jewish women at university BTW (from Bryn Mawr 1910).
- Runbotrun 1:13 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply
  
  There is a nice joke about this in Woody Allen’s 1975 film “Love and Death”…
  
  Boris (played by W.A:): “They (= jews) all have these horns?”
  Priest: “No, this is the Russian Jew. The German Jew has these stripes.”
- K 5:57 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply
  
  Could you please post the link to that? It sounds really interesting!
  
  And yeah, that seems like a pretty typical anti-Semitic depiction of Jews in those posters, at least for the 20th century. College interviews were created by either Harvard or Yale purely as an attempt to visually identify “covert” Jews with Anglo last names.
  
  By the way, anti-Semitism wasn’t a major force in the US until the economic crash of the 1890s, for which “international Jewry” was blamed.
- Bagelsan 11:27 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply
  
  Weirdness, about the Bryn Mawr thing. I know that the college had a dedicated kosher dining hall at one point a while ago (located in one of the dorms, and maybe not so coincidentally, in the dorm furthest from the rest of campus?) but other than that I don’t know anything about Bryn Mawr re. Jewish relations.
KarenS 12:30 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply

“Anglo-Saxon stock women”

Is that like a stock car? Can you order optional features?
- Kat 1:34 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply
  
  Ask Bryn Mawr… I certainly have never felt like “woman of [insert] stock”. I mean WTH?
Andrew 1:22 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply

Recently, I took a visitor to the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen. One thing that was preserved there that I haven’t seen in any other memorials to the Holocaust was anti-Semitic cartoon propaganda. (Not my photo, but here’s an example – http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/4057833 )

The walls of the kitchen area were decorated with colorful crayon drawings of vegetables and fruits, depicted clearly as Jewish stereotypes, being inspected, ridiculed, sliced up, and boiled ‘alive.’ The potatoes and carrots in the cartoons look much more human than the caricatures in the posters shown above, which made the inherent malice all the more striking.
AMarie 4:10 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply

What does “der ewige Jude” even mean? Does it mean that Jewishness is immutable and static?

Also, that faux-Hebrew script makes me think of the “oriental” fonts one might find in an American restaurant. Not a good look.

As a student of the German language, I have to vouch for the translations above- they are accurate.
- Talinka 5:01 pm on February 3, 2010 | # | Reply
  
  It refers to ‘the wandering jew’, which is a European folk-lorish figure. A jew who taunted Jesus on the cross and therefore has to walk the earth in eternity – or until the final judgement, anyway.
  
  It’s about the jews being the ‘condemmed’ race and beyond salvation – the film itself, with all its blunt propaganda, had a major impact on the implementation of Die Endlösung.
  - AMarie 5:02 am on February 4, 2010 | # | Reply
    
    wow… anti-semitism is so… wow. That moral equivocation just makes my head hurt.
    
    What boggles my mind is that Jews had little to do with the German’s domestic/political problems- at least from my perspective. =/ Jews became a convenient scapegoat (along with other minority/marginalized groups)
    - Kat 6:09 am on February 4, 2010 | # | Reply
      
      Umm… Jews had so little to do with ANY domestic/political problems of that time in Western states. You make it sound as if antisemitism is a German thing and as if it either didn’t exist anywhere else or in those other places there was a ‘good’ reason for it (?!).
      - Kat 6:11 am on February 4, 2010 | #
        
        Plus: When have minorities ever been the huge problem when racism was involved? Blacks? Asians? I mean isn’t that the whole point of racism that it’s baseless??? I’m really puzzled by your comment.
Paolo Riveria 12:36 pm on February 5, 2010 | # | Reply

Racism in Germany and racism in America are two totally different topics. We are talking about a country that thinks that no matter what happens they are number one. Then there are American views that says we are a “Melting Pot” and there are different types of races all around. I’m not trying to say that America is perfect and there is no racism. There is just the point that all of the Nazi Germans in the world think that they are the best. So these posters to them are what they see jews as, but to us jews (depending who they are) maybe perfect.
- technicolorsheep 6:37 am on February 8, 2010 | # | Reply
  
  “We are talking about a country that thinks that no matter what happens they are number one.”
  
  Um, which of the two countries are you referring to, exactly?