This is from Jud Suss (1940).
This is from The Eternal Jew (1940).
This is a propaganda poster that came out around 1938-1939. The caption reads "The Jewish spirit undermines the healthy powers of the German people."
Clearly, there are a lot of physical similarities between these three posters (however terrible they may be). It kind of amazes me the deeper you look into Nazi propaganda, the more eerily similar you realize the anti-Semitic material was. They clearly had a very specific picture of what they wanted people to imagine Jews as, and ran with it. They also managed to gear it to just about every age group, as well: below I included a page from a horrible anti-Semitic coloring book, as well as a children's book which teaches children to identify Jews by their appearance. If you are interested in seeing more Nazi propaganda, the photo archives at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website have a huge collection of it.
The inscription on the coloring book page on the left reads " Do you know him? Without a solution to the Jewish question there will be no salvation for mankind." The caption on the page from the book "The Poisonous Mushroom" reads "The Jewish nose is crooked at its tip. It looks like the number six..."
I loved this post, and wanted to respond, but it was too long so I had to make a new post haha. This is really interesting though - the color books thing made my jaw drop. That is absurd.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely disgusting to see, but I honestly wonder what type of stereotypes have been propagated in American history, even modern stereotypes in the wars in the Middle East. I am embarrassed before anything like this is even released as historical artifacts that we might be sending messages similar to this.
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