Behind the Enemy Powers: The Jew

Behind the Enemy Powers: The Jew

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Nazi propaganda
Antisemitic propaganda
Anti-Jewish propaganda
Anti-communist propaganda
Germany
1933–1939
Posters

This photograph shows an antisemitic Nazi propaganda poster titled “Behind the enemy powers: the Jew.” The poster connects Jewish people with enemy powers and uses flags, caricature, and political symbolism to spread anti-Jewish ideas. It presents Jewish people as hidden enemies behind Germany’s opponents, which was a common message in Nazi propaganda. This source is useful for studying how Nazi propaganda created a simple enemy image before and during World War II. It also shows how antisemitic messages were connected to anti-communist and anti-Allied themes.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Helmut Eschwege
Max Reid, artifact photographer

1933–1939

Still Image

Digitized photograph of an antisemitic propaganda poster

Photograph Number: 17401A
Source Record ID: Collections: 1990.193.9

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “An antisemitic poster entitled, ‘Behind the enemy powers: the Jew.’” Photograph Number 17401A.

English title provided by archive
Original poster language likely German, but confirm from image if possible

Nazi propaganda
Antisemitism in Germany
Anti-Jewish propaganda posters

Germany Nazi Germany, 1933–1939

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