Defining a Common Enemy

"After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Nazi propaganda stressed to both civilians at home and to soldiers, police officers, and non-German auxiliaries serving in occupied territory themes linking Soviet Communism to European Jewry, presenting Germany as the defender of 'Western' culture against the 'Judeo-Bolshevik threat,' and painting an apocalyptic picture of what would happen if the Soviets won the war"(The Holocaust Encyclopedia).

This cultivated a hatred for foreign enemies, especially the Soviet Union, and irrationally tied Jewish people to foreign adversaries. Connecting these two enemies established the idea that Jews were not only subhuman, but dangerous to German society.

A nazi popaganda poster, USHMM, psychologytoday

United States Holocaust Museum

"Immediately, the antisemetism started. They had a very big exhibition in April, 1938, which was to teach the population antisemetism which was their Der Ewige Jude, the Eternal Jew which is a caricature of a Jew"
~ Freddie

Der Ewige Jude, 1940, Denne Plakat

Films such as Jued Suss, the story of a Jewish banker raping an Aryan woman, and Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew), a film about a Jew using the blood of christian children for religious rituals and portrays them as “wandering parasites”, foster a culture of hatred towards Jews and stereotyped them as evil beings.

The German newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) used caricatures to promote "race consciousness" and political loyalty. In one caricatature published in June of 1933, an image depicted a Nazi shoving a Jew off a cliff and is captioned, “Go where you wanted me to go, you evel spirit”, implying Jews were trying to kill Germans first. The images distorted Jewish features and drew them with “hooked noses, huge ears and lips, hairy bodies, and crooked legs” to make them appear animalistic and less humane. Another caricature in Der Sturmer, titled “The Decent Jew” from 1936, showed a Jew politely asking for room on a bench and then shoving the German off. These images prevented German citizens from trusting Jewish people because they believed they were putting up a false persona and were all criminals under the surface.

Immunization

Der Stumer

"It occurs to me that little good comes from poison or from Jews. [Streicher was suspicious of immunization]"

The German Bussinessman

Der Stumer

"The Jewish banks and the German bussinessman"(Der Stumer)

The Decent Jew

1936, Der Stumer

"The cartoon shows a Jew politely asking for room on the bench, after which he shoves the previous inhabitant off. The poem notes that Jews behave the same way in other situations."(Der Stumer: July 1936: Issue #28)

Revenge

1933, Der Stumer

"This cartoon was published five months after Hitler took power...The Nazi who shoves the Jew over the cliff says: 'Go where you wanted me to go, you evil spirit.'"(Der Stumer: June 1933: Issue #22)