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The Truth About Spain – Antisemitic Speech by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the “Congress of Labor” in Nuremberg – Italian Edition - La verità sulla Spagna – Discorso del Ministro del Reich Dott. Goebbels al Congresso Nazionale del Partito, Norimberga 1937 – The Truth About Spain – rare Nazi propaganda booklet containing the complete transcript of the antisemitic speech delivered by Third Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg in 1937 (“Congress of Labor”). Rare edition containing a complete Italian translation of the speech – published and printed by Tipografia M. Müller & Sohn, Berlin, 1937. “The international Jewish subversive front is the sole and exclusive beneficiary of a chaotic world tragedy brought about by Bolshevism... International Jewry can, without danger, establish its dictatorship of terror and money... Resistance among the nations against this crude and brazen attempt to pave the way for Jewish domination of the world is growing... We shall fearlessly point an accusing finger at the Jew who inspired, promoted, and exploited this terrible catastrophe. Look at him: he is the enemy of the world, the destroyer of civilizations, the parasite of nations, the son of chaos, the embodiment of evil, the ferment of decay, the plastic demon of mankind’s degeneration...”. A venomous and hate-filled speech delivered by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the 1937 Nazi Party Congress, dealing with the Spanish Civil War. Throughout the speech, Goebbels accuses the Jews of creating global crises for their own interests and portrays them as the greatest threat to humanity as a whole. The central argument of the speech presents the Spanish Civil War, then underway, not as an internal conflict but as a decisive international battleground between “Jewish Bolshevism” and European civilization. Goebbels vehemently attacks the “Jewish-Bolshevik front” and accuses international Bolshevism of attempting to transform Spain into a forward base of attack in the heart of Western Europe. Goebbels combines explicit antisemitic and anti-Communist rhetoric, praises Franco’s fighters as “defenders of civilization, ” and presents the Third Reich as the savior of the world. The booklet was intended for distribution in Fascist Italy in order to reinforce the common front between Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy in their support for General Franco’s Nationalist camp. Joseph Goebbels transformed antisemitic rhetoric into a comprehensive propaganda mechanism based upon the technique of the “absolute enemy” and the existential threat. In his speeches, he systematically portrayed world Jewry as a destructive force operating behind the scenes, employing the conspiracy theory of “Jewish Bolshevism” on the one hand and predatory capitalism on the other. He employed demonizing and biological imagery – describing Jews, for example, as “parasites” or as a “contagious infection” within the social fabric – in order to instill in his listeners a sense of revulsion, immediate danger, and existential urgency. This dehumanization was intended to prepare the moral and psychological ground among the German public and to legitimize the dispossession and expulsion of the Jews, and ultimately their physical extermination, as a supposedly necessary act of “self-defense.” Rare. Only three records in the WorldCat global library catalog. 31, [1] pages. Good condition.