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Radio Propaganda and the Broadcasting of Hatred: Historical Development and Definitions
An exposition and analysis of the development of propaganda, focusing on how the development of radio transformed the delivery and impact of propaganda and led to the use of radio to incite hatred and violence.
287 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2012
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June 22, 2025
I am writing a master thesis on use of propaganda in Nazi Germany. I read the part of the book focusing on Nazi Germany and I had a tough time with finding the quotes cited in the original texts in at least 4 cases. After that I gave up. For example: Somerville writes
"The plan to rid German-controlled areas of Jews was variously referred to as final evacuation or the final solution. No explicit mention was made of extermination,
though Himmler did tell senior SS officers in January 1941 that, after the
invasion of Russia, the Slav population of the east would have to be reduced
by 30 million" and cites the book by Ian Kershaw : Hubris page 353.
As this quote was interesting to me I went on to try to find it in Kershaw but I couldn't not on that page and not on any page. Even the search button doesn't find anything on Slav population being reduced by 30 million. Only time the number 30 is mentioned is in the following discussing from page 243
"Mein Kampf gives an important insight into his thinking in the mid- 19205
By then, he had developed a philosophy that afforded him a
complete interpretation of history, of the ills of the world, and how to
overcome them. Tersely summarized, it boiled down to a simplistic, Manichaean view of history as racial struggle, in which the highest racial entity, the Aryan, was being undermined and destroyed by the lowest, the parasitic Jew.
'The racial question,' he wrote, 'gives the key not only to world history but to all human culture.' The culmination of this process was taken to be the brutal rule of the Jews through Bolshevism in Russia, where the 'blood Jew' had, 'partly amid inhuman torture killed or let starve to death around 30 million people in truly satanic savagery in order to secure the rule over a great people of a bunch of Jewish literati and stock-market bandits.
So not even close.
Book is as good as any other for giving you a list of necessary texts to read but it let me down in the sense of providing true sources to the so called citations.
"The plan to rid German-controlled areas of Jews was variously referred to as final evacuation or the final solution. No explicit mention was made of extermination,
though Himmler did tell senior SS officers in January 1941 that, after the
invasion of Russia, the Slav population of the east would have to be reduced
by 30 million" and cites the book by Ian Kershaw : Hubris page 353.
As this quote was interesting to me I went on to try to find it in Kershaw but I couldn't not on that page and not on any page. Even the search button doesn't find anything on Slav population being reduced by 30 million. Only time the number 30 is mentioned is in the following discussing from page 243
"Mein Kampf gives an important insight into his thinking in the mid- 19205
By then, he had developed a philosophy that afforded him a
complete interpretation of history, of the ills of the world, and how to
overcome them. Tersely summarized, it boiled down to a simplistic, Manichaean view of history as racial struggle, in which the highest racial entity, the Aryan, was being undermined and destroyed by the lowest, the parasitic Jew.
'The racial question,' he wrote, 'gives the key not only to world history but to all human culture.' The culmination of this process was taken to be the brutal rule of the Jews through Bolshevism in Russia, where the 'blood Jew' had, 'partly amid inhuman torture killed or let starve to death around 30 million people in truly satanic savagery in order to secure the rule over a great people of a bunch of Jewish literati and stock-market bandits.
So not even close.
Book is as good as any other for giving you a list of necessary texts to read but it let me down in the sense of providing true sources to the so called citations.
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