The Anti-Comintern (German: Antikomintern) was a special agency within the Propaganda Ministry under Joseph Goebbels in Nazi Germany.
They provide evidence of the discursive entanglements between National Socialist in Germany and the USSR, demonstrate what one regime wrote about the other, and show how the propaganda methods and narratives of one side influenced the other.
[citation needed] Between the summer of 1939 and the spring of 1941, when the Third Reich and the USSR agreed to an uneasy truce, the anti-Bolshevik propaganda was halted.
After the attack on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Goebbels noted in his diary that it was time to play the “anti-Bolshevik record” once again.
As Nazi Germany's propaganda again emphasized a global Jewish conspiracy against the German nation, the anti-Bolshevik rhetoric became a part of a discourse that served to legitimize the World War and the Holocaust.