Enemy of Germany: Nazi Propaganda and the Holocaust During World War II

This is a groundbreaking work that provides an in-depth look at the Nazis' fanatical anti-Semitic propaganda during World War II. Hitler and his Nazi propagandists had always believed that antisemitism provided the only explanatory framework for world history. They fabricated a story about an innocent Germany being besieged by international Jews with the intention of exterminating them, and used this as a public declaration and justification for the "Final Solution", firmly believing that it was necessary to exterminate the Jews before they exterminated Germany and the Germans; and as the war progressed, anti-Semitic propaganda gradually escalated and continued until the end of the Nazi regime. Although there is a long tradition of anti-Semitism among European elites and the masses, the Holocaust against the Jews was not an inevitable result of the historical process of Germany or Europe. Only under the specific historical circumstances of the war did the most extreme and paranoid wave of anti-Semitism in Europe, especially Germany, become an important factor in the German dictator's interpretation of the events at that time, and in turn became a major reason for the evolution to the Holocaust.