JULIUS STREICHER AND ANTI-SEMITIC PROPAGANDA AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN NAZI GERMANY

Abstract

The paper deals with the content and methods of vulgar Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda among children and youth in Germany in 1930 – 1940s. The analysis of Julius Streicher‘s public speeches, the literature for teachers and children‘s books published by ―Stürmer‖ and also German emigration periodicals leads to the conclusion about the great importance of anti-Semitic education of the rising generation for Hitler‘s state. Streicher enjoyed the patronage of the radical anti-Semite Hitler and therefore acted in a highly supportive environment. He succeeded in instilling hatred for Jews among German children and youth. This feeling was based both on medieval clichés and the latest racial-biological theories. German immigrants‘ attempts to draw attention of the foreign public to Streicher‘s activities had no success. The consequences of long-term propaganda of vulgar anti-Semitism were understood abroad only after World War II, when the victorious countries got some idea of the scale of the Holocaust.

Keywords

• third reich, national socialism, anti-semitism, judeophobia, propaganda, indoctrination