Propaganda del odio y del miedo. Una exposición anticomunista en la Francia de Vichy: Le bolchevisme contre l’Europe (1942)

Abstract

During World War II it was enhanced throughout Europe Axis a series of public events intended to contribute to hatred of certain social groups. In the wake of the Third Reich, Vichy France deployed throughout the country a series of exhibitions aimed at vilifying and dehumanizing to specific groups, as were the Jews, communists and freemasons. Exhibition was the case as La Franc maçonnerie dévoilée (1940), Le Juif et la France (1941) or Le Bolchevisme contre l’Europe (1942), the subject of our study. This article will delve into the techniques used in this propaganda of hate and literary fruits to which it gave rise. Enroll our research in the history of emotions, whose main drivers were Peter Burke, Barbara H. or William M. Reddy Rosenwein. We will draw hatred and fear as axes of our historical discourse and exploitation of both feelings made the authorities of New France to achieve the indoctrination of the population towards a particular ideology.

Keywords

• anti-Communism
• exhibitions
• fear
• hate
• World War II
• anticomunismo
• exposiciones
• miedo
• odio
• Segunda Guerra Mundial
• esposizioni
• paura
• Seconda guerra mondiale