Meanwhile, Hitler escalated his foreign propaganda. Within Europe, Nazi agitators targeted Bolshevism, international capitalism, and the Jews. In the rest of the world, they primarily took aim at the British Empire, the United States, international capitalism, and the Jews. As the Germans prepared to attack the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Persia—with Afghanistan apparently in contention—much of the focus was on the area east of Libya and west of India. For this reason, Nazi propagandists bombarded Arab audiences throughout the summer of 1942 with stories about the “Jewish” White House of
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