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In the 1930s, after Adolf Hitler had come to power, the Nazis encouraged anti-Semitism in Germany through propaganda. Source 1 is an example of anti-Semitic propaganda used to promote the boycott of all Jewish department stores throughout Germany. The cartoon was published in the Nazi party magazine in the 1930s. Therefore it is likely to be biased towards the ideology of the Nazi party and as the magazine was mainly distributed to Nazi party members, it was already ‘preaching to the converted’. The cartoon portrays the big Jewish businessman as a greedy octopus, with a stereotypical Jewish face, who ‘eats up’ small German traders. Its purpose was to demonstrate the central role of the party, which was anti-semitism, and also to encourage the German population to boycott all Jewish owned department stores. However, we cannot be entirely sure whether this piece of propaganda was effective in influencing the German population or whether it had no effect at all. Although we do hav...