Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Jun 2014)
La gran exposición anticomunista del Tercer Reich: Das Sowjetparadies (1942)
Abstract
Despite its origin can be traced since ancient times, the Atrocity Propaganda became especially relevant as the pivotal theme of the discourses aimed to justify the extreme violence against the “other” during the major conflicts of the Twentieth Century. Few States were as skilled as the Nazi Regime to take advantage of the potential of Art to be the backbone of the process of violent socialization of its citizenship. The power of the image to show a degraded image of the enemy which, in turn, strengthened the validity of the addresser’s arguments is openly revealed at the exhibition Das Sowjetparadies held in Berlin in 1942. In this paper, we analyze the Exhibition contents and reflect on the importance of this type of actions to disseminate an anti-Communist and anti-Semitic discourse.