ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA By Carlotta Alimonti Sergio Loffredi Filippo
ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA By Carlotta Alimonti, Sergio Loffredi, Filippo Romano, Luca Savignoni
REICH MINISTRY OF PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROPAGANDA - HITLER SET UP THE MINISTRY IN 1933 - IT WAS HEADED BY JOSEPH GOEBBELS -GOEBBELS PERFORMED THE TASK TO SPREAD THE IDEA THROUGH PRESS, CINEMA, PEDAGOGICAL TEXTS AND ARTISTIC MANIFESTATIONS THAT JEWS ARE SUB-MEN DEDICATED TO THE MOST INFAMOUS ACTIONS AND GUILTY OF ALL MISFORTUNES OF HUMANITY AND THEREFORE THAT THEY HAD TO BE ELIMINATED
PRESS BEFORE 1933 IN GERMANY WERE PUBLISHED MANY MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS • • • DURING THE NAZI PERIOD FREE PRESS DISAPPEARED BECAUSE IT WAS PUT UNDER THE MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA, WHICH WAS INTERESTED IN SPREADING FAKE NEWS ABOUT INSURRECTIONAL DANGERS OF JEWS COLLUDING WITH BOLSHEVIKS AND USA THE MOST KNOWN AND WIDESPREAD ANTISEMITIC NEWSPAPER WAS «DER STURMER» WHICH PUBLISHED NEWS ABOUT ALLEGED INFAMOUS CRIMES AND FINANCIAL SCAMS DONE BY JEWS
CINEMA • IN NAZI PERIOD CINEMA UNDERWENT A GRADUAL NATIONALIZATION OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION AND PROPAGANDA WAS MAINLY ENTRUSTED TO DOCUMENTARIES AFTER THE START OF WWII THERE WERE VIOLENT ANTI-SEMITIC FILMS AS «DER EEWIGE JUDE» , A DOCUMETARY SHOT IN POLISH GHETTOS WITH THE AIM OF DEMONSTRATING THE REAL CONDITIONS OF DEGRADATION IN WHICH JEWS LIVED. • JEWS ARE PORTRAYED AS UNCIVILIZED AND DIRTY PEOPLE, LIVING IN UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS INFESTED BY PARASITES. •
PEDAGOGICAL TEXTS EVEN SCHOOL BOOKS AND PEDAGOCIC TEXTS WERE USED FOR ANTI-SEMITIC PROPAGANDA • • A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF THIS USE IS A BOOK FOR CHILDREN PUBLISHED IN 1938 PORTRAYING JEWS AS AN ANTITHESIS OF ARYAN RACE AND COMPARING THEM TO A POISONOUS MUSHROOM
ART EXHIBITIONS IN 1936 -1937 MANY ART EXHIBITIONS WERE ORGANIZED AS A NEW FORM OF PROPAGANDA AGAINST POLITICAL AND RACIAL ENEMIES • THE EXIHIBITIONS CONTRASTED ARTISTIC DEGENARATIONS AS ABSTRACT ART IN PAINTING AND JAZZ IN MUSIC • THEY WERE EXPLICITLY DIRECTED AGAINST ENEMIES SUCH AS BOLSCHEVIKS AND JEWS •
COUNTER PROPAGANDA • THERE IS NOT ANY EVIDENCE OF PARTICULAR ANTI-PROPAGANDA REACTIONS IN FAVOUR OF JEWS NEITHER IN GERMANY NOR IN DEMOCRATIC WORLD THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS REPRESENTED BY A FILM PRODUCED IN THE US, «THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD» , WHICH GIVES JEW A POSITIVE VISION AND DENOUNCES THE ANTI-SEMITIC CLIMATE THAT JEWS HAD SUFFERED OVER THE CENTURIES •
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