Antisemitic Nazi propaganda film (part)

Identifier
irn1001003
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.147.1
  • RG-60.0899
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Fritz Hippler (Director)
  • Deutsche Filmherstellungs- und Verwertungs GmbH (DFG) for Reichspropagandaleitung N.S.D.A.P (Producer)
  • Albert Endrejat (Lodz) (Camera Operator)
  • Robert Hartmann (Lodz) (Camera Operator)
  • Anton Hafner (Lodz) (Camera Operator)
  • Hans Eberhard Winterfeld (Lodz) (Camera Operator)
  • Erich Stoll (Camera Operator)
  • Imperial War Museums
  • Friedrich Carl Heere (Lodz) (Camera Operator)
  • Heinz Klueth (Warsaw) (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts.

Note(s)

  • Censor date: November 1, 1940. Length of entire film: 70 minutes Other credits: Script: based on an idea by Eberhard Taubert; Music: Franz R. Friedl; Editing: Hans Dieter Schiller, Albert Baumeister; Narration: Harry Giese; Tricks and maps: Svend Noldan. Note: The film contains newsreel scenes from Ufa-Tonwoche 471/1939 (Poles fleeing German troops), Ufa-Tonwoche 472/1939 and Ufa-Tonwoche 474/1939 (ghetto scenes, forced labor by Jews), and Ufa-Tonwoche 439/1939 (Reichstag speech of Hitler). It also contains scenes from "The House of Rothchild" (USA, 1934) by Alfred L. Werker, the Zionist movie "Land der Verheissung" (Germany, 1934) by Juda Leman (Jews in Palestine), and of "Triumph des Willens. Das Dokument vom Reichsparteitag 1934" (Germany 1935) by Leni Riefenstahl (Germanic Aryan faces, Nazi flags, Germans marching). See Film and Video departmental files for extensive documentation and a summary of the film. See Story 898 for the beginning of this film. See Stories 3286 to 3293, Film ID 2503 for entire film "Der Ewige Jude." See also Story 2768, Film ID 2459.

Subjects

  • PROPAGANDA (NAZI)
  • NUREMBERG LAWS
  • PALESTINE
  • POLAND
  • PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH)
  • GHETTOS
  • ANTISEMITISM
  • HITLER, ADOLF
  • PROPAGANDA
  • JEWS
  • CHILDREN
  • ISRAEL

Places

  • , Germany
  • Jerusalem, Israel
  • , Poland
  • , Palestine

Genre

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