Nazi propaganda dehumanized Jews as disease-bearing animals.

Evidence

Evocative of disgust, Jews were portrayed as dirty animals. Analogies to rats and bacilli were common in pre-Nazi and Nazi propaganda. For instance, the Nazi “documentary” film entitled Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) depicted the spread of Jews as a worldwide plague of bacillus-carrying rats (Kershaw, 1987). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1773

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Propaganda struggled to override personal images of known Jews. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 524; War journalism dehumanized enemies through animalistic metaphors like rats.

Broader Connections

• Propaganda struggled to override personal images of known Jews. #qualifies (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 524
• War journalism dehumanized enemies through animalistic metaphors like rats. #exemplifies (0.75)