1. The Barmat Scandal was often used later in Nazi propaganda , both as an electoral strategy and as an appeal to anti-Semitism .
2. The Barmat scandal was later often used in Nazi propaganda as an electoral strategy and as an appeal to anti-Semitism .

Select your answer from the options. Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
pick from the following.
a). no;
b). yes;...I think the answer is
b).