The speakers’ course emphasized four core themes: the First World War, problems linked to the dominant Socialist Party (SPD), nutritional issues, and antisemitism.12 Although this last element was not the single most important one, the directive to propagandists was to link problems, when possible, to the Jews or to the agents of the international Jewish conspiracy.

Robert Gellately, Hitler's true believers: how ordinary people became Nazis, New York, New York, 2020, p. 127