“The conspiracy of international capitalism and Bolshevism is not at all a paradoxical or absurd phenomenon. Rather, it is a natural matter, because the driving force in both is that people which for thousands of years, driven by its hatred, has again and again slaughtered, divided, economically exploited, and politically destroyed humanity. Today, international Jewry is the ferment of the decomposition of peoples and states, just as it was in antiquity. It will remain that way as long as peoples do not find the strength to get rid of this virus.”

Herf, Jeffrey. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (p. 187). Harvard University Press

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From the foundation of the Nazi party to Hitler’s rantings in a Berlin bunker in 1945, the key themes in the regime’s anti-Semitic story line were righteous indignation about victimization at the hands of a powerful and evil foe, promises of retaliation, and projection of aggressive genocidal intention onto others. The core of Hitler’s attacks on the Jews in Mein Kampf and of Goebbels’s diatribes in Der Angriff in the late 1920s did not focus on racist biology. To be sure, a great deal of sarcasm was directed at the stereotyped Jewish body. But the core of the assault concerned what “the Jew” or “Jewry,” identified as one political actor, had allegedly done to Germany.77 The list of sins was long. In July 1927, Goebbels wrote that Germany had become “an exploitation colony of international Jewry,” which controlled its railroads, economy, and currency. Three million Germans were unemployed as a result of the “murderous economic war” waged by the Jews against “German discipline and German work.”78 “The Jew” was connected with capitalist exploitation as well as with communism. He “lives from the collapse of nations, whether he cloaks himself in the form of interest capitalism or Bolshevism.” The Jew was dangerous as he sought to “annihilate” peoples, “destroy” races, “turn blood comrade against blood comrade.” Nazism was a national struggle for freedom and against the “chains of slavery” imposed by Jewry.79 Following Hitler, Goebbels presented the struggle between Germans and “the Jew” as one in which no middle ground existed. “One was either a servant of the Jews (Judenknecht) or an enemy of the Jews (Judengegner).” Quoting Musssolini, he said that taking such people “out of circulation” was not terror but “social hygiene,” just as “a doctor takes a bacillus out of circulation.”

Herf, Jeffrey. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (pp. 37-38). Harvard University Press

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"Jewry has so intellectually and politically penetrated the Anglo-Saxon states that they no longer even see or want to recognize the danger. In the Soviet Union they camouflage themselves as Bolsheviks, while in the Anglo-Saxon states they appear plutocratic and capitalistic. The methods of mimicry of the Jewish race are familiar. For many years, they have sought to lull their host peoples to sleep and thereby paralyze their powers of defense against their acute and life-threatening danger . . ."

Herf, Jeffrey. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (p. 192). Harvard University Press

Notice the common thread of comparing and equating their target to a virus. This is neither new nor unintentional.