ABSTRACT
Nazi political warfare against the Soviet Union was mainly carried out by an agency that attracted considerable notoriety at the time. Just as the Anti-Comintern Pact was not primarily directed against the USSR – Japan, after all, never joined Germany in its war against the Soviet Union – the true aim of the Anti-Komintern was not to denounce the Soviet Union but to gain support in the West for Nazi policy. The propaganda ministry was the sponsor and controller of the Anti-Komintern, and, to make a complicated situation even more confused, Dr Goebbels decided that his anti-Soviet experts should be split into two groups. The Anti-Komintern idea played an important role in Nazi foreign propaganda, yet the organization behind its activities was weak. The Anti-Komintern sought its contacts primarily in right-wing and clerical circles in the Western world.
