Stojanović, Aleksandar (2020) The Jew as the National Enemy and Eternal Evil. Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Serbia under Nazi Occupation (1941 – 1944). Judaica et holocaustica, 11 (1). pp. 17-33. ISSN 2644-7045

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Abstract

Small in size and completely marginalised by Nazi anti-Semitic legislation, Jewish community in Serbia 1941 – 1944 was also a subject of highly intensive, incendiary and dirty propaganda campaign waged by German and local collaborationist authorities. From the summer 1941 until the liberation of the country, Jews were constantly targeted in all media and public discourse, even at the time when most of Serbian Jews have already been murdered in the Holocaust. Combination of the distorted and augmented facts with blatant lies was used to create a false image of a local Jew – a traitor, parasite, eternal evil and national enemy. This image was in many aspects generated following the Nazi instructions, but it also grew on already existing anti-Semitic prejudices and contents. This paper analyses the scope, nature and content of anti–Semitic propaganda in Serbia under Nazi occupation and it raises a question regarding its true purpose and goals.

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