1) Who produced it and when?
- This is a 2006 book produced by professor Jeffery Herf of the University of Maryland.
- It was republished by the Harvard University Press in 2008.
2) What were the writer’s motives? To create hatred or distrust of a particular group of people or enemy? To foster patriotism? To justify the need for war?
- Jeffrey Herf is basically trying to recreate the scenes in the form of posters (propaganda) to how the German citizens saw and heard from their homes to why Germany is fighting this war. In other words, “The Jewish Enemy” (Herf,2008) is the first detailed study of how anti-Semitism infiltrated and shaped the Nazi propaganda during the whole course of WW11 and the holocaust, and also suggested …show more content…
Hitler here is looking off to the side, to the future where Germany is the next superpower.
4) What is the tone of the document? In other words, what is the writer’s attitude toward the subject or its readers (tone can be angry, serious, formal, playful, nostalgic, etc.).
- I believe the tone of the author is very serious and I feel that as if he is trying to give us a very strong message from his work. The message is quite simple, that we (our politicians) should not live in a dictatorship and should consider all the possible options before even considering a war or bear the consequences that Germany had to go through afterwards. This can be found when the author argues us to leave “rationalist bias” behind and focus on the well-being of one another.
5) What bigger themes does this piece of propaganda speak to in society? For example, what does it express about femininity, masculinity, citizenship, ethnicity, sacrifice, duty, …show more content…
In what ways does this piece reflect the political, social, economic, or racial climate at the time?
- After analyzing this propaganda extensively, I believe that as this was the time of anti-Semitism, where so much hatred was against the Jews because of their beliefs, the world did not really seem to care until the holocaust, to be honest. So, I would say that our world is strongly influenced by matters that would essentially lead to one having an advantage over another and causing harm, or the fact that is not our matter to help them as it 's not our problem. Hence, sadly our world is really surrounded by greed that stops us from helping the one in need. For example; during WW11 when Hitler’s Nazi Germany was attacking the Jews, other countries did eventually stop Hitler but took this matter more seriously when it was too late.
Work Cited
Herf, J. (2008). The Jewish Enemy : Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Herf, J. (2008, April ). The Jewish enemy — Jeffrey Herf. Retrieved October 31, 2016, from Harvard University Press,
- This is a 2006 book produced by professor Jeffery Herf of the University of Maryland.
- It was republished by the Harvard University Press in 2008.
2) What were the writer’s motives? To create hatred or distrust of a particular group of people or enemy? To foster patriotism? To justify the need for war?
- Jeffrey Herf is basically trying to recreate the scenes in the form of posters (propaganda) to how the German citizens saw and heard from their homes to why Germany is fighting this war. In other words, “The Jewish Enemy” (Herf,2008) is the first detailed study of how anti-Semitism infiltrated and shaped the Nazi propaganda during the whole course of WW11 and the holocaust, and also suggested …show more content…
Hitler here is looking off to the side, to the future where Germany is the next superpower.
4) What is the tone of the document? In other words, what is the writer’s attitude toward the subject or its readers (tone can be angry, serious, formal, playful, nostalgic, etc.).
- I believe the tone of the author is very serious and I feel that as if he is trying to give us a very strong message from his work. The message is quite simple, that we (our politicians) should not live in a dictatorship and should consider all the possible options before even considering a war or bear the consequences that Germany had to go through afterwards. This can be found when the author argues us to leave “rationalist bias” behind and focus on the well-being of one another.
5) What bigger themes does this piece of propaganda speak to in society? For example, what does it express about femininity, masculinity, citizenship, ethnicity, sacrifice, duty, …show more content…
In what ways does this piece reflect the political, social, economic, or racial climate at the time?
- After analyzing this propaganda extensively, I believe that as this was the time of anti-Semitism, where so much hatred was against the Jews because of their beliefs, the world did not really seem to care until the holocaust, to be honest. So, I would say that our world is strongly influenced by matters that would essentially lead to one having an advantage over another and causing harm, or the fact that is not our matter to help them as it 's not our problem. Hence, sadly our world is really surrounded by greed that stops us from helping the one in need. For example; during WW11 when Hitler’s Nazi Germany was attacking the Jews, other countries did eventually stop Hitler but took this matter more seriously when it was too late.
Work Cited
Herf, J. (2008). The Jewish Enemy : Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Herf, J. (2008, April ). The Jewish enemy — Jeffrey Herf. Retrieved October 31, 2016, from Harvard University Press,