Why did the Nazis draw Cartoons about Jews before the Holocaust ? Is it a custom before killing to dehumanize?

Question

NAZI CARTOONS :

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/sturmer.htm

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Answer 1

You are correct: dehumanization is often a precursor to killing one's target. It is part of the psychological process of being able to take the life of those who are not a direct threat to the killer. This is why foetuses are not called babies by those supporting abortion. This is why assisted suicide is called euthanasia (meaning 'good death'). Verbal and visual tweaking gains sufficient ground to desensitise the populace and then unspeakable horrors can procede.

In his novel 'Gotz and Meyer' (about 2 Nazi soldiers driving vans in which Jews were asphyxiated) he suggested how those men could rationalise such evil as acceptable - how they could live with the knowledge of their murders (for they attached the pipe from the exhaust and put it into the van). They had been desensitised to the humanity of their pitiful cargoes by such subtle tactics as this:

'In all those documents the words Jew and Gypsy were written 'jew' and 'gypsy', in lower case. Inferior people cannot command superior letters.'

That is why Christians should refuse to accept the current practise of writing the Bible as 'the bible' because the next step will be to burn copies of the Bible.

Answer 2

Der Stürmer was a publication that predated Hitler’s ascension to Chancellor published by Julius Streicher. He was not well liked, even among Nazi’s, though they did use his propaganda to denigrate the Jewish population and reap their ignorant hatred on them. Yes, this was one way how to show the non-Jewish German population how unscrupulous and evil the Jews were. In part, it was a majority of the German population that did believe in the lies and followed the Nazi ways. It made them believe that they should be treated as animals and so Nazi’s were allowed to Jews as such. To further dehumanize Jews, they shaved their heads, took away their possessions, homes, freedom, loaded onto train boxcars like cattle and demeaned in every possible way imaginable. The Jews in the concentration camps (death camps) were used as lab animals by Nazi doctors (the leader and most infamous was Joseph Mengele) where experiments that PETA would have wanted banned if in fact that these were performed on cattle, were performed on human slaves, mostly on Jews and Gypsies.

Der Stürmer’s publication continued until the fall of Nazi controlled Germany in 1945. Julius Streicher was caught, tried on war crimes and summarily convicted and executed.

Answer 3

Dehumanization of your enemies is a standard practice in war times, I strongly doubt that is started with the Nazis. Note I'm not trying to excuse them, just saying they didn't start the practice.

Answer 4

Nazis have been Christian. no longer stable Christians I admit however the officailly professed Christianity as their state faith. And specific caricature propaganda depicting Jews in all varieties of terrible roles became used earlier and by the holocaust. you have lost me even with the undeniable fact that, what's the "next team on their record"?

Answer 5

Genocide has eight stages.

The second and third stages are "symbolization" and "dehumanization"--you turn them from real people into symbolic entities, then you remove the humanity from the symbols you have constructed. That is what these cartoons do.

Answer 6

Non sequitur - logical fallacy meaning 'it doesn't follow'

Many pictures have been drawn of micky mouse - I was not aware that it foreshadowed the great murine extermination.

What about the cartoons of Mohammed? They certainly weren't precursors to any violence - well, not by the ones who drew the cartoons anyway.

Answer 7

Considering that just about every question I've seen from you concerning Jews is negative and outright antisemetic, I think it is very likely that you used your seemingly innocent question just as an excuse to post antisemetic cartoons.

Twisted.

Answer 8

Read: "Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide" by Berel Lang-- it will provide you with some insights in regards to your question.

Answer 9

Is it a custom before killing to dehumanize: Yes it is.

Soon, Bush may start killing Mexicans because we have been discriminating against them.

Answer 10

My logical fallacy alert just went crazy.


So now Danish artists are in co hoots with Bush to have a muslim genocide ....?

I can find plenty of art right now making fun of anything, quit being little schitzo cry babies