Der Giftpilz:
Ein Stürmerbuch für Jung und Alt

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„Die Taufe hat aus ihm keinen Nichtjuden gemacht. ..“

Analysis

How does this illustration work?

This illustration accompanies Warum sich Juden taufen lassen. A caricatured couple leaves a church after baptism while a priest stands in the doorway and two women observe them.

The crosses and church setting establish conversion, while the unchanged caricatured faces visually deny that conversion can alter the book’s racial category.

Propaganda technique: Racial essentialism; conversion-as-camouflage.

Evidentiary boundary: The image asserts that Jewishness is immutable; it gives no evidence about the converts’ beliefs or motives.