Kurt Baschwitz

Jaap van Ginneken (b. 1943, Hilversum) studied social psychology, with mass psychology and mass communication as collateral subjects in Amsterdam, and did a Ph. D. with distinction on the history of political and mass psychology. He taught part-time at the (then) 'Baschwitz' Institute within the Political and Social Science Faculty; later at the Department of Communication Science. At the same time, he did a wide range of media projects, mostly on science communication. He is the author of 25 full-length/ single-author books: half aimed at larger audiences, half purely academic; half only in Dutch, half translated into English and other languages.

Preface List of illustrations 1. INTRODUCTION 2. YOUTH & JOURNALISM 3. WAR AND PROPAGANDA 4. FIRST BOOK: PROPAGANDA AND ENEMY IMAGES, with Extract 5. WEIMAR AND THE PRESS 6. SECOND BOOK: PRESS AND AUDIENCES, with Extract 7. EXILE AND POLITICS 8. THIRD BOOK: POLITICS AND MASSES, with Extract 9. HIDING AND PERSECUTION 10. FOURTH A.F. BOOKS: PERSECUTION AND WITCH HUNTS, with Extract 11. FOUNDER OF MAJOR INSTITUTIONS 12. RETIREMENT YEARS 13. CONCLUSION EPILOGUE APPENDIX: FULL ESSAY ON ‘THE POWER OF STUPIDITY’ Notes Acknowledgements References Index/ Register Author List of abbreviations