Chetnik propaganda framed the Partisans as a Jewish-led foreign conspiracy.
Evidence
The Supreme Commander of all Communist forces in the country is some Comrade Tito, whose real name nobody knows, but we know only that he is a Zagreb Jew. His leading collaborators are Moše Pijade, a Belgrade Jew; Frano Vajner, a Hungarian Jew; Azija Kokuder, a Bosnian Turk; Safet Mujije, a Turk from Mostar; Vlado Šegrt, a former convict; and many others similar to them. Their names best testify as to whom they are and to how much they fight from their heart for our people. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1066
Categorization
- QUESTION: Tito was actually of mixed Slovene-Croat background, not Jewish; the pamphlet’s fabrication shows how ethnic labels functioned as political shorthand regardless of accuracy.
- XREF: connects to: The Red Scare made Jews concrete symbols of foreign radicalism. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1688