Nelson Ascher writes about anti-semitism by proxie, and the Jihadis' real agenda:

The Nazis managed to convince millions and millions of Frenchmen and Poles, Belgians, Norwegians etc. and, yes, Brits and Americans that, since they were fighting a common enemy, the Jews, they weren’t really the mortal enemies of France and Poland and Belgium and Norway and England and the US. Untold millions were eager to believe that Germany wasn’t really threatening them and their countries, that the Germans didn’t really want to conquer, exploit and kill them. Why? Because they either thought that they could make a common cause with the Nazis against the Jews, or remained indifferent, neutral and defenseless because, being indifferent to the fate of the Jews, they believed it was none of their problem. Many of them even turned against those in their own countries who wanted to fight the Nazis and blamed them for putting everyone else in danger just to “protect the Jews”.

In short: if the Jews were used in the beginning as scapegoats, their main use throughout the war was as a tool to “divide and conquer”. Thanks to their sincere or opportunistic ant-Semitism the Germans were able to paralyse important forces in the countries and societies they wanted to defeat and submit.

That’s just what is happening once again before our very eyes. Though the Jihadists have their own clear, even megalomaniac goals, and while they kill thousands in the US or fight for Shari’a in Europe, while they complain about East Timor or fight for Kashmir, it is enough for them to involve the Jews, particularly Israel, in their struggle or their declared agenda to get the active support or at least the indifference of those in Europe, the US and elsewhere who would like to believe that their complaints, grievances and goals are restricted to or only motivated by Israel. Of course, they also declare they’re fighting against America, but then, for those who hate America anyway (and often the Jews and/or Israel too), the same logic works perfectly.

What bugs me here is that the part associated with Nazi Germany sounds like exaggeration. So here's my question. Does anyone here believe that's the way it went down? Namely, that anti-semitism propaganda was a key tool not just to lull Germany's opponents before the War (which I don't question), but also to defuse insurgencies in the Nazi empire? All I know is that it was part of the propaganda program and that the overall program was effective in Germany proper.

Does anyone here believe that's the way it went down? Namely, that anti-semitism propaganda was a key tool not just to lull Germany's opponents before the War (which I don't question), but also to defuse insurgencies in the Nazi empire?

It was very effective in defusing insurgencies in Poland and Ukraine. Especially in Ukraine, because Nazis were smart enough to promise Ukranian Nationalists an independence after the war. (Whether they intended to keep that promise is an unanswerable question.)

It's useful to remember a couple of things:

The Nazis used a variety of methods to suborn or otherwise reduce opposition, especially before any invasion. Thus, they also played on fears of Communism among right-wing groups in France and elsewhere.

The Nazis, especially once the war began to run against them, propagandized that they were defending Europe from Judeo-Bolshevism (there are some fascinating propaganda posters to this effect from Holland, Poland, and elsewhere). The Bolsheviks were inevitably portrayed as Jewish (replete with hook noses and fat lips). At least some of the foreigners who joined various German units (including a French and a Dutch SS unit) did so in the belief that they were fighting Communism (and probably "Jewish" Communism at that).

Did it defuse entire insurgencies? Not when you've got mass slaughters of locals, but when it's "only" Jews, and you have populations that were pretty anti-Semitic to begin with (Poland comes to mind), it probably helped.

It's worth recalling that the Polish Home Army didn't jump to aid the Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Some of that had to do with limited resources, but it also had to do with reluctance to aid people that many Poles also despised.

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