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REACTION
1941
Increasing usage by Aryan inspired anti-Semitic
February 430 Jewish hostages are deported from Amsterdam after a Dutch Nazi is killed by Jews.
militias and white supremacist hate groups are to be kept in check. The reoccurring usage implies a
call to arms and the potential to cause a resurgence of hatred is to be considered intolerable. Every time
September German Jews are ordered to wear yellow stars.
I personally encounter the image of the swastika,
whether in Heller’s book, a flag in a Jewish historical museum, or commentary on contemporary
October Nazis forbid emigration of Jews from the Reich.
supremacist power, as telling illustration I am left in shock and horror. Contemporary usage
November The Theresienstadt Ghetto is established near Prague as a model ghetto for Nazi propaganda purposes. During a cabinet meeting, Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, says “Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them.”
VISUAL CU LTU RE AN D TH E HOLOCAUST
of the swastika, newly describing the American Fascist or Republican Party does not serve as
an appropriate aesthetic, even to describe the
current political regime. The usage of the swastika
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represents everything that I find offensive. Heller
questions the symbols potential redemption, and
Down with
I believe he would agree that any usage is wrong
Financial
and hurtful in any context. Its representation is
Enslavement! Vote National Socialist!
especially dangerous in political usage—even if it
Nazi Election
is to describe our current state of affairs. Its usage
poster, by Hans
wrongfully addresses ideas of anti-Semitism.
Schweitzer, 1924. (Herf, 32)
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Poster text quoted from a Hitler speech
der Woshe, Reich
extermination. Hitler repeatedly
Laughing!!! Parole Propaganda
Directorate of the Nazi Party, 1942. (Herf, 168)
regarding his early proficy of Jewish
reference the jews as ‘them laughing,’ ‘once laughed,’ or ‘if the laughter
has already gone from them.’ Hitler
publically announced his ordering and implimentation the extermination of the Jews.