Picturing Anti-Semitism in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands: Anti-Jewish Stereotyping in a Racist Second World War Comic Strip

TY - CHAP

T1 - Picturing Anti-Semitism in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands

T2 - Anti-Jewish Stereotyping in a Racist Second World War Comic Strip

AU - Ribbens, Kees

N1 - This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, no 1 (2018).

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - In 1942, the Dutch weekly magazine Volk en Vaderland, which propagated the political opinions of the Dutch National Socialists in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, published a comic strip, “Rare, maar ware commentaren” (Odd, but true comments). In it, the illustrator, Peter Beekman (1911–1959) depicted current events and the various perceived enemies of National Socialist society, Jews in particular, providing insight into how the genre was deployed in the Nazi propaganda machine. This article analyses the use of six dominant anti-Semitic themes which appeared in this particular wartime comic strip, but which were also a reflection of wider anti-Jewish stereotyping present throughout Europe at the time, including those of “otherness,” greediness and Judeo-Communism.

AB - In 1942, the Dutch weekly magazine Volk en Vaderland, which propagated the political opinions of the Dutch National Socialists in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, published a comic strip, “Rare, maar ware commentaren” (Odd, but true comments). In it, the illustrator, Peter Beekman (1911–1959) depicted current events and the various perceived enemies of National Socialist society, Jews in particular, providing insight into how the genre was deployed in the Nazi propaganda machine. This article analyses the use of six dominant anti-Semitic themes which appeared in this particular wartime comic strip, but which were also a reflection of wider anti-Jewish stereotyping present throughout Europe at the time, including those of “otherness,” greediness and Judeo-Communism.

KW - Anti-semitism

KW - World War II

KW - Comics

KW - Nationalsocialism

KW - propaganda

KW - Dutch History

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1-138-59864-5

SP - 8

EP - 23

BT - Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust

A2 - Stanczyk, Ewa

PB - Routledge

CY - London

ER -