"...destroying society with their Negro music..."

"My family were by no means National Socialists. But the Nazi propaganda, these pictures of America that we were continually exposed to in school, really sank in. I can still remember a caricature that made a particularly strong impression on me: a dark black Negro holding up a big club with which he had just struck down a blond-haired boy. For me, that meant: America - they're all a bunch of Negroes and cannibals. And the ones that aren't Negroes are Jews. The picture had a big caption: Americans - Negroes - Jews. And then: They are subjugating the entire world, they are decadent, they are destroying society with their Negro music. But then in 1945 the enormous advantages of the Americans in comparison to the other occupation troops became obvious very quickly."

Wilhelm W., born 1930, then a railway worker. (Boltzmann-Institut/Steinocher-Fonds Interview Archive, Salzburg)