Cartoon Regularly Featured On Big Journalism Connected To Nazi-Era Magazine
Written by Kevin Zieber
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In at least three instances, Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism website has used an image connected to a Nazi-era German magazine noted for anti-Semitic cartoons and pro-Hitler leanings.
The image appeared in a Big Journalism post Thursday morning written by Logan Churchwell, director of public relations at Accuracy in Media:
That image has since been removed from the post. Big Journalism, which is edited by CNN contributor Dana Loesch, also used the cartoon in a January 8 blog post credited to Warner Todd Huston, and in a July 2 post:
The cartoon appears to have originated in a 1942 edition of the German magazine Kladderadatsch.
Heidelberg University in Germany maintains an online archive of Kladderadatsch. From the magazine's March 29, 1942, edition:
In his book The Offensive Art, Leonard Freedman, professor emeritus of political science at UCLA, wrote that the periodical, which “burst into print in 1848,” came to “serve the Nazi regime docilely.” Calvin College professor Randall Bytwerk, an expert on Nazi and East German propaganda, has noted Kladderadatsch's shift toward using its cartoons to express support for the Nazis:
These cartoons all come from 1934 issues of Kladderadatsch, a leading German satirical weekly that quickly adopted to National Socialism. These cartoons reflect the Nazi propaganda line at the time: Germany wanted peace, whereas the rest of the world was preparing for war.
Heidelberg University explained that the magazine became increasingly anti-Semitic after Hitler's rise.
A user on the white nationalist Web forum Stormfront posted the same image in 2009:
UPDATE: The image has been removed from the January 8 and July 2 blog posts.