Nazi government official Franz Rademacher further divulged in memos how the plan would see these Jews have their citizenship revoked and personal property claimed to help fund this controlled ghetto. SS officer Adolf Eichmann was commissioned to produce a report detailing Madagascar's colonisation potential, concluding that as many as 4 million European Jews could be forcefully shipped to the island and placed inside a 'police reserve' ghetto. The Madagascar Plan was a pre-WWII proposal devised by the Nazi Regime which considered the mass emigration of 10,000 Jewish refugees living in France as a potential 'Final Solution' to the so-called 'Jewish problem'. In Attack on Titan, Marley uses similar propaganda tactics, publicising a false history which demonises the Eldian people as both a past and continuous threat to Marleyan livelihood, citing this as justification for their exploitation tactics.

The Protocols' absurd claims regarding Jewish peoples were used to play on the post-WWI paranoia of the wider public in a number of nations, rendering Jews a scapegoat for issues from socio-economic struggles to moral panics surrounding threats to democracy (ibid.). Within this erroneous text, claims are made of a supposed Jewish master plan to take over the known world and from it, build a Jewish empire. The Protocols, cited as the core blueprint of modern anti-semitism, is a heavily circulated piece of Czarist Secret Police propaganda introduced in the early 20th century (Laqueur, 2006, 96). It is the Marleyan regime which tortures Eldians they deem too free-thinking by shipping them to Paradis' outer perimeter, injecting them with Titan spinal fluid, and turning them into the mindless cannibal giants that Attack on Titan's leads have battled from the very beginning.įor instance, the propaganda instilled into Marleyan civilians, neighbouring nations, and the systematically oppressed Eldians living outside of Paradis, can be compared to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

It is the Marleyan regime which colonises smaller nations and forcibly conscripts these citizens to fight for their army.

It is the Marleyan regime which sets dogs to maul Grisha Yeager's kid-sister to death for the innocent curiosity of leaving the internment zone. It is the Marleyan regime which conscripts Eldians to fight in their wars, and pressures them to give their children to the Warrior program (a death-sentence in-and-of itself) in return for the most basic of human rights. Indeed, what Polygon's article fails to account for is the mass of atrocities Marley commits against the Eldian people, who are themselves reflective of a facist regime, rather than the likes of Paradis' Survey Corps. As such, using the same totalitarian governance they despise the once-nation Eldia for. With neighbouring nations' military advancements in anti-Titan artillery threatening Marley's dominance, they resultantly decided that only the power of the Founding Titan might offer security. As such I am avoiding using the author's name.Īs a matter of fact, Marley's attack against Paradis came as a result of their own anxieties surrounding their position as a feared global authority. This is because these are not statements made within this article alone, and exist as part of a broad conversation amongst many regarding the franchise.

I also do not mean this to be a smear against the the article's author, rather a discussion of the points made within the work. I shall break down the points made within the Polygon article chronologically, accompanied by any further points which may have not been touched upon. However, I wanted too, to divulge how Attack on Titan has been misinterpreted, as further into the narrative's progression there exists many more incidences which indeed reject these facist and anti-semitic suggestions. I am not alone in offering a counter-argument to Polygon's article, and multiple media sources including Collider and CBR have criticised Polygon's claims, citing them as misrepresentative. As an AniManga fan and follower of the franchise since the anime adaptation's initial release in 2013, from what I have witnessed in social media spheres such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Reddit, Polygon's article has definitively had an effect on Attack on Titan's reputation, particularly with those who have not- at least entirely- engaged with the franchise themselves.

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