Is the Nazi scare tactic being used against refugees in Europe?

Are you afraid of the dark men all over your body?

Asher Kohn February 22, 2016
Warning: The images in the post may not be suitable for audiences under the age of 18 years. 

Billing itself as a ‘brave young Polish weekly’, W Sieci wasn’t particularly brave in their choice of cover: a blonde woman wearing the European Union flag as a toga, being groped by meaty, hairy arms. W Sieci’s cover story was titled ‘Islam’s rape of Europe’.

Photo: Twitter

It wasn’t too youthful, either. The title references Roman myth — Jupiter’s rape of princess Europa. But the creepy image of swarthy hands defiling a fair white maiden is a 20th-century scare tactic. The United States brought the myth into World War I, depicting a Germanic ape carrying a ravished chestnut-haired woman.

Photo: Library of Congress

During World War II, Japanese propagandists preyed on American racial fears (no, African Americans were not the bosses of any US town during World War II):

Photo: PsyWar.org

But it was fascists that made the threat much more explicit. The Italians printed these posters showing American soldiers carrying off Italian women:

Photo: digitalpostercollection.com

Occupied Poland was put under Bolshevik watch (the starvelings are a nice touch):

Photo: Twitter

And Nazi propagandists dropped leaflets on US soldiers depicting a rape scene near a dead body:

Photo: PsyWar.org

This sort of imagery peeks its ugly head out when people are at war. Or at least feel that they’re at war — the visual language of W Sieci tells its audience that there’s a sexualised threat to the nation’s women and the nation’s honour.

But it’s an old tactic used to attack an amorphous, animalistic ‘other’. The gruesome depictions were once a dirty way to fight a war. Now they’re just a desperate ploy to sell magazines.

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COMMENTS (10)

Dan Sword | 7 years ago | Reply A lot of people are beginning to believe that the criminal refugees (as opposed to say, persecuted Christians) from Syria are being allowed in purposely so that they can cause a backlash which will in turn justify a crackdown - surveillance, martial law, etc. Hypothetically, this would eventually lead to a consolidation of power in Europe and maybe even the world (if they can pull off the same thing in the states. I'm not sure this is all the ruling class' NWO scheme as many people believe, but you can't say it's out of the realm of possibility.
Tristan van Oosten | 8 years ago | Reply It's not exactly a scare tactic as it has already happened: Cologne, anyone ? Don't forget Kiel (a couple of days ago).. or the Rotherham affair (and hundreds more cases).
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