Holocaust museum recycles Jewish propaganda

Wearing a black hat and a suit bearing the yellow Star of David, a man recoils from a large finger pointing at him from above.

"He is to blame for the war," reads the poster caption.

Similar images, along with newspapers, speeches and broadcast clips, tell the story of how Nazi Germany's propaganda machine cultivated hatred and suspicion and portrayed Jewish people as the enemy in the new museum exhibit "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda."

The exhibit opened Jan. 30 at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and runs through December 2011. It documents how propaganda fostered public indifference as the government and its allies went from hostilities to mass atrocities of the Holocaust, when millions of Jews and other groups were killed between 1933 and 1945.

Museum officials hope visitors will become more critical of information and more aware of anti-Semitism and intolerance. For instance, the exhibit touches on the 1994 Rwandan genocide and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call to wipe Israel off the map.

"It's to alert people to the fact that hate speech and language like this didn't go away when the Nazis fell," said Steven Luckert, the exhibit's curator. "These are things that we have to be constantly aware of in our own day."

Nazi leaders branded Adolf Hitler as a savior. The swastika logo became instantly recognizable in posters and other marketing used to attract votes from women, laborers and students as the Nazis rose from a little-known party.

After coming to power in 1933, Hitler established a ministry of "public enlightenment and propaganda." Visitors can use a touchscreen monitor to see and hear examples of the ministry's work, including music they used.

Newspaper reports also played a role in gaining support for the Nazi agenda. Curators said many Germans didn't share Hitler's desire to go to war in 1939 so fabricated reports of countries such as Poland threatening the country were printed to make it seem like an invasion was necessary.

At its core, the Nazi party promised to unite Germans under a national, Aryan identity regardless of class, religion or region -- but excluded were Jews, the mentally and physically disabled, gays and other groups considered "impure." More crap

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Wiesenthal illustrated his book with drawings which he allegedly did either while in Mauthausen or from memory thereafter, and one of the more famous pictures from his book is of three Jews, in their striped prisoner outfits, who had been shot at the stake by the Nazis. (reproduced below).

The title page of Nazi Hunter and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal's Holocaust memoirs, 'KZ Mauthausen Bild und Wort'

Illustration of three Jews, shot by Nazis at the stake, as signed by Wiesenthal

(his signature in the bottom left hand corner)

and purporting to be a scene in the Mauthausen camp.

WIESENTHAL'S DRAWING PLAGIARIZED FROM LIFE MAGAZINE

Although Wiesenthal alleged in his book that the drawing of the three shot Jews occurred in Mauthausen, the truth is that he plagiarized this picture from a series of photographs which appeared in the Life magazine of June 1945.

The series of photographs were of German soldiers, captured during the 'Battle of the Bulge" wearing American uniforms, and executed by firing squad as allowed by the Geneva Convention. Wiesenthal copied his picture of "three shot Jews" from a Life photo essay which showed three Germans being shot by Americans!

Below is the full set of pictures from the Life Magazine of June 1945, along with that magazine's cover. Note the three photographs on the third inside page reproduced below.

Below are the photographs of the three shot Germans, from the above last page of Life Magazine, put side by side, and under that, Wiesenthal's "Mauthausen execution" drawing once again: a comparison of the two can leave no doubt as to where this world famous "Nazi hunter" stole this image for his "memoirs."

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