© 2004 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Role of Antisemitic Doctrine in German Propaganda in the Crimea, 19411944*
1 Taurida National University, Ukraine
Why did antisemitic propaganda continue in specific localities long after the Jews had been exterminated there? Relying on a case study of the Crimea, the following survey addresses this and other little-researched questions, such as how propaganda fit into the occupation regime's division of labor and how the German administration organized the means of mass information; why some antisemitic canards were emphasized and others downplayed; the balance between local and central information sources; and the role of collaborationist intellectuals. The author considers the long-term influence of Nazi propaganda on its intended audiences.
* The author expresses gratitude to the Jewish (Welfare) Center "Khesed Shimon" (Simferopol); the Sefer Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization; and to the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, for a Charles H. Revson Fellowship for Archival Research for 2002/03.