Editing Anti-Comintern Pact (section)

==== "Anti-Komintern" (GDAV) ====
The ''[[Anti-Komintern]]'', officially the ''Gesamtverband Deutscher antikommunistischer Vereinigungen'' (abbr. GDAV, 'general association of German anti-communist federations'),<ref name="Waddington-2007">{{Cite journal |last=Waddington |first=Lorna L. |date=2007 |title=The Anti-Komintern and Nazi Anti-Bolshevik Propaganda in the 1930s |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=573–594 |doi=10.1177/0022009407081488 |issn=0022-0094 |jstor=30036470 |s2cid=159672850}}</ref>{{Rp|576}} was a German agency established by [[Joseph Goebbels]] in 1933.<ref name="Waddington-2007" />{{Rp|573}} Its activities covered a wide range of operations designed to denounce communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular,<ref name="Waddington-2007" />{{Rp|580}} push [[antisemitic]] propaganda and garner domestic and international support for Nazi policy.<ref name="Waddington-2007" />{{Rp|574}} It was placed under the leadership Dr. [[Adolf Ehrt]] [<nowiki/>[[:de:Adolf Ehrt|de]]]. Under Ehrt's leadership, the Comintern was denounced as 'godless' in reference to its [[atheism]].<ref name="Waddington-2007" />{{Rp|581}} Beginning in July 1936, the [[Spanish Civil War]] became a main focus for the Anti-Komintern's publications.<ref name="Waddington-2007" />{{Rp|580}}

One of the Anti-Komintern's most significant outputs was the 1936 international release ''Der Weltbolschewismus'', in which it connected various anti-communist and anti-semitic conspiracy theories for the consumption of the international audience. The book was not released in Germany itself to avoid conflict between the book's varied accounts with German state propaganda.<ref name="Waddington-2007" />{{Rp|581}}