Anti-Semitic Images in Nazi

Germany

How genocide was possible

 Learning Intentions
• List the four steps to genocide.

• Describe how the Nazis depicted Jews

in images.

• Explain what impact anti-Jewish

propaganda would have had on the
average German in the 1930s.
 Propaganda...what do you
remember?
In your class work books, jot down a few
points on

a)what forms of propaganda the Nazis

used and
b)why they used them.
 Historical views of Jews
• Look at the cartoon on the following slide.

• What country was the cartoon published in?

• How does the cartoon depict (show) Jews?
• What does this tell us about the way Jews
were viewed by some people throughout
Europe?
A British cartoon illustrating popular feeling about the
notorious conditions in the sweat shops of the East End

Stephen Aris The Jew is Business Jonathon Cape 1970

 Steps to Genocide
• Identify the stereotype
• Dissociate the stereotype from
anything positive
• Associate the stereotype with negative
ideas
• Escalate the seriousness of the
negative associations
 Exercise
• You are about to see some images that
the Nazis used to illustrate Jews in the
1930s.
• Copy out and complete the following
table as we go through the slides.

• This exercise is designed to get you to

manage information and make decisions...
 table
Image No. Step (1-4) How the Jew is Who the Jew is
depicted targetting
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
 1

Identification of the Jew

The Jew’s Nose is
bent at the tip, it
looks like the figure
6”

Illustration from
children’s book ‘The
Poisonous
Toadstool’
A beer mat
with the
slogan:
“Whoever
buys from a
Jew is a
traitor to
his people”
 Having a universal stereotype
means you have a universal threat
 2

Dissociation of the stereotype

from everything Aryan
 3

Association with undesirable

elements, for example….
The Jewish
Octopus
 4

Escalate the severity of negative

associations
…A threat
to
children
 From
Jews are immoral
… physical
differences,
it is an easy
jump to more
important
differences.
The
thoughts,
feelings, and
actions of
the Jew are
presented as
a
contradiction
and threat
to German
morality
… A threat to young women
Inge's
Visit to a
Jewish
Doctor :
"Two
criminal
eyes
flashed
behind the
glasses and
the fat
lips
grinned."
 ….They
practise ritual
slaughter

How Jews Torment

Animals : "The animal fell
once more to the ground.
Slowly it died. The Jews
stood around and
laughed."*
In pairs, compare your answers for
each of the images and complete the
following sentences.

•The Nazis used images to show Jews

as being...

•In my opinion, the most chilling and

alarming image was...I think this
because...
Its not much of an imaginative
leap from social outcast to
parasite on society…

What do you see in the next

slide that is not evident in the
others?
“When the vermin are
dead, the German oak
will flourish again”
“We want…to work on people…
until they realise…that what is
happening in Germany not only
must be accepted, but can be
accepted”

Joseph Goebbels
 Exercise
• What was the job of the man mentioned
in the previous slide?
• What is he trying to justify?
• How do you think he would plan to
achieve his aim apart from producing
posters?