A rhetorical critical analysis of Father Coughlin's radio broadcast, November 20, 1938 or call it what you will . . . . it's still anti-semitism

During times of chaos and confusion-like the late 1930s-people desperately search for answers. Rumors were coming out of Germany about Nazism, about Jewish persecution. Then came Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938. At that point, celebrated radio priest Father Coughlin decided to explain to his American listening audience exactly what, according to him, the situation was in Germany. This paper takes an in-depth look at Father Coughlin's explanatory radio broadcast on November 20, 1938. The outstanding finding: Father Coughlin's clever use of the strategy of role reversal turned the victims of Nazism-Jews-into the victimizers.